re: #258 HappyWarrior

But anyhow, I think the vibe I got from that link is just the blatant double standard Buckley and many conservatives like him have to governing. It’s “meddling” to do something about Apartheid but perfectly dandy to have a U.S sponsored dictator that the people do not want in Latin and South America. Call it the Cold War mindset all you want but that article just shows Buckley’s hypocrisy and racism big time.

What it really was was driven by the Cold War. Until the USSR pulled back and the African National Congress stopped being a Soviet client movement, the alternative to apartheid would have been a Soviet client state. And that would have been a nightmare for America on several different levels.

If you don’t agree, then tell me how else it could have worked out.