A man of war, not peace

‘He is a president who can’t think properly and wants to plunge the world into a holocaust... all for oil... the US has no moral authority to play policeman of the world.”

- Sydney Majoko

Anyone who woke up on Sunday and came across these words would be convinced that they were about Donald Trump.

These were the words of former SA president Nelson Mandela over three decades ago, when then US president George W Bush defied the UN and invaded Iraq.

The truth in the words ring true today because another US president has “captured” the president of another sovereign state, president Nicolas Maduro, of Venezuela. Many have chosen to label this action a kidnapping, a sanitised “capture”, which the US prefers.

These are the actions of a man, who in a short year in office since his reelection, has campaigned for the Nobel Peace Prize for having ended “seven wars”, claiming: “If my name were Obama, I would have been given the Nobel Peace prize already”.