Comments on: Mandela and the Founding Fathers: Terrorists v Patriots https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/mandela-and-the-founding-fathers-terrorists-v-patriots/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mandela-and-the-founding-fathers-terrorists-v-patriots 53 years and 204,000 miles of business, CEO, leadership, startup, political, military wisdom Mon, 23 Feb 2015 17:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.11 By: miguel https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/mandela-and-the-founding-fathers-terrorists-v-patriots/#comment-1935 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 17:03:00 +0000 http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=2805#comment-1935 so is he a patriot or terrorist fuck

]]> By: Fernando Gutierrez https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/mandela-and-the-founding-fathers-terrorists-v-patriots/#comment-1174 Wed, 11 Dec 2013 17:11:00 +0000 http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=2805#comment-1174 Just now I’ve just read an editorial in one of the two big newspapers in Spain. It criticizes Obama because he compared Mandela with Gandhi, Luther King and Lincoln in his discourse; and said that Mandela was peaceful. It says that Obama disregarded his own country with such big lies.

]]> By: Fernando Gutierrez https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/mandela-and-the-founding-fathers-terrorists-v-patriots/#comment-1173 Wed, 11 Dec 2013 10:43:00 +0000 http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=2805#comment-1173 In reply to JLM.

Those must be interesting indeed! In Spain we have an extreme manifestation of that, we keep rewriting the history of the civil war we had just before WWII.

The rebels won the war and we had a dictatorship for almost 40 years. When we recovered democracy the history of that war changed quite a bit. Before that, the rebels saved the country from falling into communism and they were heroes. Now history says that the only side doing horrible things was the rebels, who won. In the other side all combatants were saints… but we all know there are no saints in a civil war.

]]> By: JLM https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/mandela-and-the-founding-fathers-terrorists-v-patriots/#comment-1172 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 20:14:00 +0000 http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=2805#comment-1172 In reply to Fernando Gutierrez.

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Hahaha, that is real wisdom, my friend.

In the American South, the Yankees (North) occupied the South after the Civil War. Southern officers were forbidden to publish their memoirs.

The Boss has read approximately 50 private memoirs from that era. They make for very interesting reading.

BRC
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]]> By: Fernando Gutierrez https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/mandela-and-the-founding-fathers-terrorists-v-patriots/#comment-1171 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 18:29:00 +0000 http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=2805#comment-1171 The cynical in me would say that, except in extreme cases, you are a patriot/hero when you win and a terrorist when you lose. History is told through the eyes of the one who survived.

]]> By: pointsnfigures https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/mandela-and-the-founding-fathers-terrorists-v-patriots/#comment-1169 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 13:39:00 +0000 http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/?p=2805#comment-1169 interesting contrast. thanks.

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