Posted on 06/01/2006 5:00:39 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
Just when you think "it's as bad as it can get", it will become worse. Malice and idiocy by themselves do not know any limits, and could only occasionally limit one another.
That chip on your shoulder looks like a brick to me.
Overstatement except to be humorous or sarcastic do not help your argument. In fact, they tend to discredit it.
I guess that means you agree.
LOL. . .and except when something 'good' needs to be accomplished; otherwise they are right on it. . .and in it. . .
You assume incorrectly in post 24.
It appears to me, that Japan, China and Taiwan are not excluded. It is not just "whitey"
I take a great deal of pride in wearing my "Selous Scouts - Rhodesia" t-shirt.
I'll grant you Japan. But China is going to put pressure on Zimbabwe to reform?
Thats a good one.
The UN is a glorified debating society funded by the wealthier nations to give the smaller nations a body where they can "feel" important.
What could be wrong in this country. Once the colonialist were gone, it was suppose to be heaven on earth.
The international community, including the Carter Administration in the US, went through hoops to help install the government that resulted in Mugabe taking charge. He was the toast of the west in the late 1970s and early 80s. I think the "international community" would rather see every last Zimbabwean starve to death than have to backtrack on Mugabe.
Yep. Makes it hard for me to give a damn about their problems. They ain't the "white man's burden" anymore. They are free to revert to their own natural order, under the benign leadership of their revolutionary heroes.
And they have in Zimbabwe.
It makes it even harder for me. I remember the tremendous international pressure on the Ian Smith regime. This was in the sixties. Rhodesia it was then.
My own native country England to the fore. I believe South Africa and Israel alone dared to differ. The fools in England, all lily white of course. The demonstrations etc. The shouts of "one man, one vote". A great idea, one cannot refute that. Of course, Mugabe does not play by the rules.
I suppose those fools live in their safe houses and neat suburbs. The Zimbabwe whites not so lucky. They(former demonstrators) are able, as Orwell so aptly put it in another context, able to put a clothes pin on their noses, to keep out their own stink.
---LIVING conditions have worsened in Zimbabwe, where most of the 700,000 people who lost homes or businesses in mass evictions last year were still struggling to find shelter, a United Nations housing expert said today.---
If they will not defend their homes, if they will not fight, what is anyone to do for them?
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