Jack Okie
2008-05-20 06:55:31
Odd that you don’t identify the root of the problem (Mugabe) and his enabler (Mbeke). Zimbabwe used to be a prosperous exporter of food, and could be again if the population were not so abused.
Colonial boundaries surely don’t help, but attitudes are much more important. South Africans tolerate their president’s support for a vicious thug – and then complain when the consequences of that support spill over into their country. If South Africans believed the Zimbabweans’ political and economic freedoms were as important as their own, there would be a different result. My country got a lot of grief from the rest of the world for deposing Saddam Hussein, but we believe EVERYONE’S freedom is important and are willing to act on that belief.
