Race and Rescue:
Slate Magazine’s Christopher Hitchens tackles Nelson Mandela’s Iraq remarks head on. Hitchens does a good job of digging up the history to refute Mandela’s claims of racism.
”…this latest garbage is a very timely caution against our common tendency to make supermen and stars and heroes out of fellow humans. Iraq is not Saddam any more than Zimbabwe is Mugabe, and being on the right side of history once is no guarantee that the subsequent fall will not be from a very great height.”
A Nobel Peace Prize is indeed a poor measure of infallibility, and it is all too easy to award special reverance to persons for singular achievements. Read the article, Hitchens underscores more points than would be feasible to quote here.
