Joshua Marshall joins the chorus of right-thinking Americans, led by Roger Ailes reader Jim, who are outraged by Bow-Tie Boy Carlson's willful disregard of the truth as to the reasons for the end of apartheid in South Africa.

Popular opposition to apartheid, not just in the United States, but in the many parts of the world, and in the United Nations, had a positive influence in ending racist rule in South Africa. The United States' decrease of financial support for South Africa's racist regime -- a policy which was opposed by Ronald Reagan, George Bush and Dick Cheney, of course -- also had an impact, of course. But to give the American "government" credit -- particularly when that government was led by apartheid apologists Reagan and Bush -- is pure fantasy.