william bob
2008-06-23 15:29:42
Part of the reason Ian Smith in Rhodesia and Botha in South Africa gave up power was because they were ostracized by the larger white community in the world. Perhaps if blacks here and elsewhere protested Mugabe’s rule with some of the same brio that they protested apartheid, Mugabe’s grip would be weakened. Kennedy said that those who make peaceful change impossible, make violent change inevitable. Why is that only true of right wing dictators with ties to the US?
