British Conservative leader, David Cameron, has come out to say Nelson Mandela’s African Nation Movement were not terrorists and his [party got it wrong all those years ago. Well, twenty/twenty hindsight is a great thing…
"The mistakes my party made in the past with respect to relations with the ANC and sanctions on South Africa make it all the more important to listen now.
"The fact that there is so much to celebrate in the new South Africa is not in spite of Mandela and the ANC, it is because of them - and we Conservatives should say so clearly today."
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I imagine some day that we will look back at writing off Hamas as terrorists and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
Remember when the IRA were nothing but terrorists? What if the British government had refused to negotiate with them?
While I can sympathise with the Irish cause, sections of the IRA were and probably still are terrorists.
The ANC were undoubtably terrorist in nature, but so was the regime they were fighting.
But then everything is relative I guess.
I still marvel at how the US Congress can justify supporting IRA activist thugs while attacking other forms of terrorism.
AS always it comes back to all those shades of grey.
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