.” If P, then not Q. This statement

.” If P, then not Q. This statement enjoys the status of axiomatic certainty. There is no possible logic of withdrawal that follows from such a self-verifying axiom. “The gooks can’t win,” so we escalate. Thus we come to fight the gooks and the chinks and the niggers as well. “But those gooks didn’t win, did they? Now those chinks and gooks and niggers togethercan’t win . . .” So the air-tight logic flows on, and so we enter World War III. The second logical sequence begins benignly enough, “No sane man wants violence.” Is it therefore insane to sanction the incessant violence that a Black South African endures? But this, of course, is not violence. It is merely a high mortality rate from disease, starvation, and suicide. We blame it on the Population Bomb or on Their Own Stupidity, never on our own Chase Manhattan debentures. But when their revolution begins—that is termed “violence,” and violence is insane. So we send in the marines:
“peacekeepers” who never even heard of Apartheid. When Black troops arrive from East and West Africa, we defend the territorial integrity of South Africa against these invaders,these perpetrators of “violence.” Next to arrive are the gooks and the chinks . . . And so we enter World War III.