We might recall that unforgettable moment when President George Bush—whose invasions of Panama and Iraq brought death and destruction to those nations and who presided over a U.S. military empire that is the single greatest purveyor of violence in the world—lectured revolutionary leader Nelson Mandela on the virtues of nonviolence, even going so far as to quote Martin Luther King, Jr., during Mandela’s visit to Washington, D.C. in June 1990. Mandela’s real sin in Bush’s eyes was that he was part of a revolutionary movement that engaged in armed struggle against a violently repressive apartheid
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