[The ANC has been talking about getting Africa on to the UN Security Council for quite some time. This has been refused. But apparently, with the arrival of Putin, they say that in January 2007, S.Africa will get a 2 year temporary seat, which will rotate between various (unnamed) countries. Apparently, Putin played a role in achieving this.

From my perspective, I am going to be fascinated by watching what happens in the UN Security Council because, I wonder if this won’t work against the USA?

African countries are notorious for supporting communists, dictators, terrorists and Muslim radicals. I think this is bad news, ESPECIALLY for Israel. But I wonder if there is any good news in this for the USA. I would suspect the CIA will be trying to arm-twist our Govt to vote pro-USA, but I feel that at certain critical junctures the USA much watch out. This could work against the West. So I’m a skeptic, but this will be most fascinating to watch.

President Mbeki, being basically a loser, like Anan, who can’t run a piss-up in a brewery, seeks his glory in the international arena where you don’t have to make anything work, and where TALK and hot air counts for something. On the ground, in his own country, things are going to hell in a hand-basket… but that will be ignored. I suppose, international politics is the refuge of a fool who can’t make a success of his own internal policies! Jan]