Who's The Enemy Here?
Nelson Mandela, the former president of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize winner and noted anti-apartheid leader, is on the US terrorist watch list:
I'd say. Then again, considering all of the things that have come out about the Bush Administration that involves foreign relations, we should be really worried if this is the story that embarrasses our Secretary of State. Fortunately for Rice:
What's the Vegas odds that this vote won't be unanimous?
The requirement applies to former South African leader Mandela and other members of South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC), the once-banned anti-Apartheid organization. In the 1970s and '80s, the ANC was officially designated a terrorist group by the country's ruling white minority. Other countries, including the United States, followed suit.Because of this, Rice told a Senate committee recently, her department has to issue waivers for ANC members to travel to the USA.
"This is a country with which we now have excellent relations, South Africa, but it's frankly a rather embarrassing matter that I still have to waive in my own counterpart, the foreign minister of South Africa, not to mention the great leader Nelson Mandela," Rice said.
I'd say. Then again, considering all of the things that have come out about the Bush Administration that involves foreign relations, we should be really worried if this is the story that embarrasses our Secretary of State. Fortunately for Rice:
Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., chairman of the House International Relations Committee, is pushing a bill that would remove current and former ANC leaders from the watch lists. Supporters hope to get it passed before Mandela's 90th birthday July 18.
What's the Vegas odds that this vote won't be unanimous?
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