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(Editorial cartoon by Jim Morin / Miami Herald (November 4, 2011) and featured at McClatchy DC. Click on image to enlarge.)
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posted by Diane at 3:00 AM
Sunday, November 06, 2011
(Editorial cartoon by Jim Morin / Miami Herald (November 4, 2011) and featured at McClatchy DC. Click on image to enlarge.)
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I'm retired now, with plenty of time to do a lot of reading, especially of newspapers. I think we're in trouble, folks.
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1 Comments:
I just read something about Grover...here it is.
Savimbi was “one of the few authentic heroes of our time,” roared Jeane Kirkpatrick, queen of the neocons, when she introduced him at the 1986 Conservative Political Action Conference. Grover Norquist followed the great man around his camp in Angola, preparing magazine articles for Savimbi’s signature. Jack Abramoff made a movie about Savimbi, depicting him as a tougher, African version of Gan- dhi. Even Savimbi’s capital—the remote camp called “Jamba”—was described in conservative literature with elevated language such as “Savimbi’s Kingdom.”
In truth, Savimbi’s main achievement was to keep going, for nearly thirty years, a civil war that made Angola one of the worst places on earth—its population impoverished, its railroads and highways and dams in ruins, its countryside strewn with land mines by the millions, even its elephant herds wiped out, their tusks hacked off to raise funds for his army.
at Harpers
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