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| The American Architects of The South-African Catastrophe |
| 2017-06-11 |
| [Mercer writes for the Austrian Mises Institute] Yes, it has happened. A mere 23 years after the 1994 transition, in South Africa, to raw ripe democracy, six years following the publication of a wide-ranging analysis of that catastrophe, Into the Cannibal's Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa, a Beltway libertarian think tank has convened to address the problem that is South Africa. The reference is to an upcoming CATO "Policy Forum," euphemized as "South Africa at a Crossroad." One of the individuals to headline the "Forum" is Princeton Lyman, described in a CATO email tease as having "served as the U.S. Ambassador to South Africa at the time of the transfer of power from white minority to black majority." At the "Forum," former ambassador Lyman will be discussing "America’s original hopes for a new South Africa and the extent to which America’s expectations have been left unfulfilled." (Italics added.) The chutzpah! The CATO Institute’s disappointment in the South Africa the United States helped bring about is nothing compared to the depredations suffered by South Africans, due to America’s insistence that their country pass into the hands of a voracious majority. Unwise South African leaders acquiesced. Federalism was discounted. Minority rights for the Afrikaner, Anglo and Zulu were dismissed. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 This was a total disaster. Color of skin test. The Chinese have it right marry local to have blood in the game. The destruction of a country and many peoples with all the good intentions. The dramatic unintended consequences laid bare for all to see. The elites there rule the day.Send money and they skim the most of it off the top. O sending the billions to Iran is a good example. Money went to the inner circle. Oh; its spent alright, for what and to what we will never know. |
| Posted by: Dale 2017-06-11 15:01 |
| #1 In truth, the United States did not act alone and SA was not the first country to feel the impacts of African regime change. The entire transition began even before the final shots of WWII were fired. Author Martin Meredith lays out the events and chronology pretty well in 'The Fate of Africa, a histor of the Continent Since Independence.' |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-06-11 08:42 |