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That would be the 5 seconds necessary to smash the hard drive with an axe.

Out of many Stan and I suffered through, my favorite chief of mission pronouncement was on July 16th 1994 regarding the...

The arrogance of corrupt power knows no limits...

No(t) a bad scenario--the risk is of course that the leader is another Bob (or soon becomes one). But as to taking to the streets, a Romania-style event would be useful--as long as the right folks...

By that you mean this?



If so, I will just say that I believe I have earned my opinions on the DRC through long study, extensive writing, and living through some of its chaos. Since I refer to...

So the opposition steps back from partnering with Mugabe after their Minister of Agriculture is charged with high treason.

Maybe we just merge the DRC and Zimbabwe and call it Chaos...

I am sure the West is lining up. Who wants to be first to get fleeced?

Good piece on Mr. Mugabe from VOA, courtesy of Dave on the SWJ roundup.
Obviously the rules don't apply to the great man or his wife. And you can be sure that the same patronage is taking place...

Small as it may be, a victory against Mugabe's thugs is worth noting as it requires no small amout of bravery.

And to complete the thought here is Mugabe

Plucked this off Fox this morning.




And from CNN

Mugabe still plays the anti-imperialist card as he destroys Zimbabwe. His rhetoric should anger the continent but it won't.

Tom

And so the Mugabe thuggery continues with no end in sight. Campbell and his wife were beaten up last year in an earlier attack.

48 hours but who is counting?

Moi! :D

Tom

I have a headache now :eek:

3rd World Quarterly is a statement in and of itself...

This one is a tough read and it really hits at the heart of the white farmer's reality--that regardless of government, Zimbabwe's farmers face expulsion in its harshest terms, at great cost to them...

David,

I am not one who calls for divine intervention but in Mugabe's case as well as all his entourage divine food poisoning would have been divine.

Tom

Dave and Bill as usual have rounded up the best Zimbabwe articles for the past several days. The cholera outbreak may be the final straw toward pushing South Africa into action.

Mugabe's regime...

Brilliant! Stan and I should have thought of the "stop shaking hands" bit in Goma '94. Of course, the could use their Zim dollars to buy bottled water.

Turning off the water because chemicals are...

I have been expecting this to happen but the degree is a bit more than I had guessed was coming. Mugabe is old and will not be around that mush longer but he has institutionalized thuggery as a...

I am in a time warp. It is October 1993 and just finishing 2 weeks vacation in Haiti (yes I am indeed warped in ways beyond time) I step off a plane to meet Stan and Dean Schultz in K-town. They...

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All of this makes me repeat what I said on this same thread on March 19 2008:

This is so Mobutu it is uncanny. Did he have a long lost twin brother named Robert Mugabe?

Stan,

The difference is that the Zairian/Congo Mobutu crowd never fought to get into power. When they got in trouble, we bailed 'em out.

Mugabe's thugocracy did fight a war to get where they...

The very day I stepped off the plane onto the NDjili tarmac to meet Stan for the first time, Mobutu did the very same thing with the New Zaire set at 4NZ to the US Dollar, replacing the the old Zaire...

Ambassador McGee has done an admirable job in highlighting te situation and challenging the Mugabists (new word, I rather like it:D) as well as leading by example. But I don't quite get the almost...