Comments on: Mugabe, Mbeki, Maliki: They’re Our Boys

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 14:15:50 +0000

Even the Zanu sympathetic Costatu is fed up with mugabe:

Cosatu marches with ‘Hang Mugabe’ posters

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20070403134903843C314307&set_id=1&click_id=6&sf=

By: Dave Meckanic

Dave Meckanic — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:41:01 +0000

Too true, the collective “we” did put them there (with a big push from the political arm of the IMF, the UN and their Marxist military arm in Africa, the ANC), but there is a long history of the installation of puppet governments. The only problem in this case is the “puppets” have come off the strings, with a vengeance. BEE is not the peaceful capitulation the ANC would like and it appears that in the months to come, they are going to be met with more resistance. Personally, as I have said before this so called “Affirmative Action” in South Africa is a sad joke. It silences, denigrates and suppresses minorities, rather than help them. Just because blacks are minorities in many first world countries, doesn’t mean they are a minority in a third world country, especially one they call their own. It doesn’t make sense. But, we are talking about Africa and Mugabe seems to be Mbeki’s role model.

By: Barbara Grant

Barbara Grant — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:30:06 +0000

What’s interesting about the first two cases is that we (Britain and America) have the unfortunate tendency to not want to be bothered about the effects we’ve helped create. I’m not sure that there’s much of an outcry in Britain over either Zimbabwe or South Africa, and the horrible situations created there. As for America’s part, I clearly recall that before the “regime changes” in Africa, the white minority were demonized as “bad people” in the media, guilty of holding the black population down, and that was enough information for most Americans. The third case, Iraq, is clearly ongoing but could well be “solved” by reminding Iraqis that their problems are their own if (or when) we leave, the lot of the average Iraqi being worse than before “liberation” from Saddam Hussein.

By: Leonard

Leonard — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:11:08 +0000

“Tribulation” is perfect. Apparently it comes from a different latin root than “tribe”, but it still suggests “tribe” to this English-speaker. And that’s exactly what Mugabe is doing: reverting the land area of Zimbabwe to tribal rule. That tribal organization of a society cannot support the population that modern western social organization did — therein lies the tribulation.

By: Stephen W. Browne

Stephen W. Browne — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:45:35 +0000

I’ll no doubt develop this theme further, but in my pessimistic moments I wonder if civilization (defined as those places where ordinary people can live secure in their property and reasonably free from arbitrary arrest, imprisonment and being eaten)has spread about as far as it’s going to in the foreseeable future.

In other words, maybe this is as far as Enlightenment, industrial civilization extends for a while to come.

http://rantsand.blogspot.com/

By: Wladimir Kraus

Wladimir Kraus — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:20:18 +0000

I’d like to second NIC’s praises. Ilana’s latest piece confirms once again and with flying colors what I’ve always been saying: she is the Goddess amoung political commentators! Keep up the great work, your majesty!

By: nic

nic — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:39:27 +0000

What a terrific column. Your words are so precise and parsimonious. It would take any other writer about a month to make a point half as cogent, let alone compose a single argument. Such great writing – always a pleasure to read.