The death of Nelson Mandela is an event to be mourned. But his magnificent life is also something to be celebrated, for his exemplary moral courage and for the heroic struggle against one of the most oppressive and vile political systems ever created that he symbolized and helped bring to a triumphant conclusion after spending 27 years in prison as a 'terrorist.'
Few politicians have ever achieved as much as he did, and few have generated such enormous goodwill in their own lifetime.
Long before his death, Mandela had acquired - regardless of his own intentions - the status of universal celebrity and secular sainthood, and the glow that he created had already begun to attract some very dubious admirers.
'They flee from me that sometime did me seek,' wrote the poet Thomas Wyatt. In Mandela's case the reverse is true. Take for example John 'bomber' McCain. Last month McCain attended the screening of the Mandela biopic Long Walk to Freedom, in Washington, where he delivered a eulogistic address which declared: Full story...
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Few politicians have ever achieved as much as he did, and few have generated such enormous goodwill in their own lifetime.
Long before his death, Mandela had acquired - regardless of his own intentions - the status of universal celebrity and secular sainthood, and the glow that he created had already begun to attract some very dubious admirers.
'They flee from me that sometime did me seek,' wrote the poet Thomas Wyatt. In Mandela's case the reverse is true. Take for example John 'bomber' McCain. Last month McCain attended the screening of the Mandela biopic Long Walk to Freedom, in Washington, where he delivered a eulogistic address which declared: Full story...
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