South Africa

South Africa detonates into Roosevelt Room fury as President Mbeki's sovereign stronghold, cradle of his incendiary AIDS denial that Alan hurls back at 'you people.' The name crashes like rhetorical shrapnel, yanking distant provocation into White House crossfire—moral crusades shatter against political landmines, reputations buckle under international glare, and abstract ethics twist into urgent fallout. Off-stage yet omnipresent, the country commands silence, redirects pleas into indictments, and forces policy architects to reckon with a leader's words echoing across oceans.