Senegal's outspoken president urged Friday that Zimbabwe's people nevertheless be spared international sanctions and aid cuts. Wade evoked the long-term good of development aid for the people of Zimbabwe and elsewhere. "Airports, road, schools, universities - this has nothing to do with a political regime," he said. I can understand the plea, but not the logic. The same issue pertains to arafart and hussein: they are depostic dictator's who brutalize their people at will, yet the West is begged for more aid, which is then stolen by the dictator which gives him more resources to continue the brutality.
As O'reilly would say, am I wrong?
It is a real dichotomy. Ward isn't (from what I know-which truthfully isn't much) trying to root out corruption and build up the infrastructure not line his own pockets. Unfortunately, the track record of the other African leaders is so rotten he's going to have a tough row to hoe.