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Original Post Date: 2001-09-22 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 9/22/2001 10:51:04 PM
USA Expects (but won"t get) Military support from South Africa
This article below is interesting. In two world wars, South Africa was each
time divided as to which side to support. Even though the circumstances are
now very different, South Africa will, for different reasons be just as
divided – and part of that divide will be racial. White people will generally
support the USA.
President Bush phoned Thabo Mbeki two days ago. It was noted in our media
that President Bush did not ask Mbeki for military support and that Mbeki did
also not volunteer any military support.
The ANC and the South African Communist party have strong ties with America’s
enemies, namely: Saddam Hussein, Gaddaffi, Castro, etc. They come out in
support of the enemies of Israel all the time.
Furthermore, the ANC-led government said there would be no day of mourning
for the victims of terrorism in the USA nor would flags be flown at
half-mast.
I highlighted a few important points in the article below including Zuma’s
statement that military assistance was not an option and including the point
that only 30% of black South Africans think we should assist the USA
militarily.
To me it is quite clear that the ANC is not on the USA’s side but it is not
openly going against it yet because it wants US money and aid. But I think,
if the crunch should come in the years ahead the ANC-led government will put
us on the side which is against the USA. (Jan)
Source: The Sunday Independant
September 22 2001 at 07:25PM
By Peter Fabricius
The United States indicated late this week that it might require military
assistance from South Africa in its looming war against international
terrorists and their sponsors – and would expect such assistance to be
forthcoming.
This was made clear in an interview with a senior US state department
official as President George W Bush put the finishing touches to an imminent
US assault on terrorist bases in Afghanistan.
“We have asked South Africa for full diplomatic and political support,” said
William Bellamy, the US’s acting assistant secretary of state for Africa.
‘South Africa has not considered any military involvement’
But he added: “If it became necessary to ask South Africa for military
assistance, we hope we would get a positive response.”
On Saturday the first US reconnaissance aircraft reportedly arrived in
Uzbekistan, a former Soviet republic that shares part of Afghanistan’s
northern border, as US warships and planes converged on the Gulf.
The Northern Alliance, a group opposed to the Taliban, on Saturday called on
the US to accelerate any planned military action.
Amid fears that a US attack on Afghanistan could precipitate a humanitarian
disaster, UN aid workers headed for Islamabad at the weekend to prepare for
the dispatch of food and humanitarian aid to Kabul, the Afghan capital.
As support for the US appeared to solidify, Turkey offered the US landing and
refuelling facilities for its transport planes.
‘You are either with us, or with the terrorists’
In building an international coalition against terrorism, the US faces the
potential dilemma of when to seek UN approval for its plans in order to keep
on board a number of states in the developing world, including Iran and South
Africa, which are insisting that they are not participating in direct
military action but want to be part of the broader fight against terrorism.
South African government officials appeared relieved earlier in the week that
when President George W Bush called President Thabo Mbeki to thank him for
his unequivocal condemnation of the terror attacks on the US, he did not ask
for military assistance.
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the foreign minister, said afterwards that
military assistance was “not an option”.
The South African government has offered humanitarian support and also
offered to “co-operate with all efforts to apprehend the culprits and bring
them to book”, said a South African government statement issued after this
week’s cabinet meeting.
Specifically, the government offered the co-operation of its security
agencies in offering “concrete intelligence information that South Africa may
have at its disposal”.
The government said it “recognises the right of the US government to track
down the culprits and bring them to justice” but suggested that it did not
think a military approach to dealing with terrorism was appropriate – or
should enjoy South African support.
It suggested that the response to the terror attacks should consist only of
the short-term response of bringing the perpetrators to justice, and a
longer-term response of isolating terrorists through international
co-operation to build an equitable world order.
This medium-term challenge would include concerted efforts to resolve
conflicts in all parts of the globe, including the Middle East.
“It includes a joint commitment throughout the world to eradicate poverty and
underdevelopment,” the government statement said.
“South Africa has not considered any military involvement in the operations
envisaged by the US administration. The matter has not been raised and within
the context of our approach to both the immediate and longer-term challenges
in dealing with the scourge of terrorism, the issue does not arise,” it said.
The government has been praised for its balanced approach, but it is clear
the US is looking for unequivocal commitment.
Bush this week stated bluntly: “You are either with us, or with the
terrorists.”
One official source said this week South Africa had already offered some form
of unspecified military assistance.
However, Bellamy said he was not aware that the US had requested any military
assistance.
He said the US was not asking African countries for troops as yet but some
had offered facilities such as airports, bases and harbours.
It is such assistance that South Africa might be asked to provide, depending
on how the war progresses, according to military sources.
Jakkie Cilliers, the head of the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria,
believes South Africa would allow the US to dock warships in its harbours if
asked. He says it would be difficult to refuse as South Africa has already
agreed to do so in the past. But if war breaks out between the US and
Afghanistan and perhaps other Islamic countries, US warships in South African
docks would take on a different meaning.
It would almost certainly be interpreted by the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan
and others as an act of hostility against Islam and would probably stir up
Muslim extremists such as Pagad in South Africa.
Apart from whatever principled objections it might have to joining a
US-led military coalition, the South African government must deal with the
divide, largely along racial lines, among its citizens.
This has emerged from phone calls to radio stations and letters to newspapers
and from a snap telephone survey conducted among a cross-section of 500 South
Africans last weekend by Markinor for the US polling company, Gallup.
Asked if South Africa should take part in military action against terrorists
with the US, 44 percent said yes and 46 percent, no.
When this response was broken up by race it showed that 52 percent of whites
and coloureds and 45 percent of Indians were in favour of South Africa taking
part in the US-led military action. Only 30 percent of blacks were in
favour.