U.N. humanitarian envoy Jan Egeland (R), escorted by a senior Zimbabwe Army officer and government officials, visits camps housing thousands of victims of Zimbabwe's controversial shantytown demolitions in Hatcliffe, outside of Harare, December 5, 2005. (Stringer/Reuters)
isn't this the same UN-monkey that insutlted the US a few years back?
A problem with despots like Mugabe is they so threaten even their closest advisors they are only told what they want to hear, not the truth. And of course, true to form, they blame outside forces for their self-imposed problems. Like the USSR, sooner or later they are ruling over a vast wasteland worth nothing and unable to supply them with the necessary income to survive.
The world let Mugabe terrorize the whites, murder them and drive them away. It was racist but no one would point that out. Now with the results of his actions reaching their climax the western world will be called racist if they don't provide support... As Mugabe is attempting to do in this case.
It is time the world faced the reality of Africa and especially Zimbabwe. Colonialism has been gone for two generations. Things are back to where they were before colonialism. African are free of Western rule and have independent governments that can find their own way without our help. They need to do so.
If Mugabe is bad, his African neighbors need to intervene, not the UN or the U.S. If he is acceptable to his neighbors, then what happens in Zimbabwe is their responsibility. Fifty years ago the cry was "Africa for the Africans"... What they do with it is their challenge and their responsibility.