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What if nobody recognized Robert Mugabe?

June 25, 2008 - 7:06 pm - by Richard Fernandez
Richard Fernandez
2008-06-25 19:37:54

Tsvangirai is not going to change Zimbabwe for the better overnight. There’s always the chance a new president may turn out worse than Mugabe. But the point of removing Mugabe is not to guarantee a future but to judge a past and send a signal that even in the Third World, there are limits, pour encourager les autres. Personally I would like to see the final demise of those hoary old argument which ascribe every evil to colonialism. At some point its validity lapses.