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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Horowitz：曼德拉以恐怖分子起家，之后他也从没弃绝阿拉法特和卡斯特罗之类的暴君
，而是把他们当作兄弟；他留下的南非是他政治生涯的罪证，而不是值得赞美的成就
Mandela began as a terrorist and never turned his back on monsters like
Arafat and Castro, whom he considered brothers in arms. When he was released
from prison by deKlerk, he showed unexpected statesmanship, counseling
reconciliation rather than revenge, no small achievement in a country in
which the “liberation” movement (led by Mandela’s wife and party) placed
oil filled inner tubes around the necks of former comrades and set them on
fire.
But if a leader should be judged by his works, the country Mandela left
behind is an indictment of his political career, not an achievement worthy
of praise – let alone the unhinged adoration he is currently receiving
across the political spectrum.
South Africa today is the murder capital of the world, a nation where a
woman is raped every 30 seconds, often by AIDs carriers who go unpunished,
and where whites are anything but the citizens of a democratic country which
honors the principles of equality and freedom.
Liberated South Africa is one of those epic messes the Left created and
promptly forgot about.
About David Horowitz
David Horowitz was one of the founders of the New Left in the 1960s and an
editor of its largest magazine,Ramparts. He is the author, with Peter
Collier, of three best selling dynastic biographies: The Rockefellers: An
American Dynasty (1976); The Kennedys: An American Dream (1984); and The
Fords: An American Epic (1987). Looking back in anger at their days in the
New Left, he and Collier wrote Destructive Generation (1989), a chronicle of
their second thoughts about the 60s that has been compared to Whittaker
Chambers’ Witness and other classic works documenting a break from
totalitarianism. Horowitz examined this subject more closely in Radical Son
(1996), a memoir tracing his odyssey from “red-diaper baby” to
conservative activist that George Gilder described as “the first great
autobiography of his generation.” |
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