Shows what a hypocrite that Nelson Mandela is. Now he speaks. Bit late isn't it? South Africa's sainted leadership hasn't exactly covered itself with glory over this.
The barn door is being closed after the horse bolted, got recaptured, lived a long and fruitful life and got sent to the glue factory...
Nobody has covered themselves in glory here.
Mbeki is a git.
Brown is a git.
Mugabe himself is the second coming of Idi Amin.
I wish we could pepper the landscape of Zimbabwe with these posters and hope that even the hired goon squads would turn on this freaking monster.
This time, I hope they string him up. No fleeing to a friendly neighbourhood, no retiring into comfort at the expense of others. Hang him high.
And same goes for Mugabe.
Well I hadn't.
But that comment has been smited (Temporarily I'm sure) ;-)
Has everyone missed the point that this is not just a single personage. It is the hardened clique that holds on to their "rents" via maintenence of the present structures.
Their monoploy of the use of force is the issue. Until that monopoly fractures, or is fractured, naught will change in the existing trends.
What did it in Serbia will have to be done in Africa - this time by others than the U S; because everything we do in that range, from Kuwait on, is despised by the "intellectuals" (read Wordsmiths) of the world.
"Will no one rid us of this troublesome ...."
N0, not likely, "sovereignty" is more sacred than the cathedral.
