Posted on 04/02/2006 6:40:06 AM PDT by MadIvan
The results of one-man rule are obviously painful.
Castro in Cuba, North Korea, Mugabe are all recent failures to provide for the common good.
So long as weak and cowardly people allow themselves to be pimped out by tyrannical bastards, the story will continue.
That Patrick Henry fellow had it right.......
"give ME liberty or give me death"
It's all about the struggle.
Just for the record - I don't believe in aid for Africa. No country has ever achieved prosperity through a dependency on charity.
I do believe that when the behaviour of a dictator becomes this egregious, however, the West should kill him, as a warning to any other would be despots.
Regards, Ivan
MAN in all his ugliness is a MAN without Our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ in their lives. 6=Man 3 6's = complete man...complete man without the mind of God = Castro, Chavez, Mugabe etc....we've seen them throughout the ages....
It is worse then that. Aid, if given too long, can severely retard prosperity.
You and I are in 100% agreement on more than one thing, it seems.
And his good friend Mbeki!!
Ivan, you are not your usually cogent self on this issue. You say your tax money can be used to alleviate this distress, but no aid, but then a bullet...
Why not address the source of the the current trouble, it was giving aid to 'these poor back heathens' by our missionaries, done with the best of intentions, that caused the population to balloon and outstrip its food supply in the first place. Who was it that said save me from those with good intentions?
This is such a fiaco, but once the initial bad policy was put into place all further discussion, like this, is just about the band-aids and not fixing the policy and letting the country heal itself. But that would be, to quote a previous poster, 'I am just amazed at some of insensitive and cruel comments made on this subject.' And so this poster tithes her church so that aid can be sent to these countries to perpetuate the trouble because to do otherwise would be sooooo insensitive.
The British were forced to get out because 'it was soooooo insensitive to not allow self-rule.' Can anyone argue that it is even remotely a better country under self rule? I am sure their self-esteem is a lot higher that it was under the British, even as they throw their babies into the trash. Please God spare me from those with good intentions.
It is beneath this forum.
If it is an attempt at humor. You missed.
Maybe because they have a Mugabee and the Pilgrims did not?
The poor will always be among us. I cannot turn my head from their desperation no more than I can ignore Mugabee's evil government. I cannot feel as comfortable and smug as some do about the hopeless.
Not sure I follow that. Wasn't Zimbabwe an exporter of food up until the current dictatorship?
The UN saw this coming - as we all did - and did NOTHING!
Why the hell we would bother with such an organization is beyond me.
As for Zimbabwe, Mugabe should go the same way as Saddam. I'm confident the Zimbabwean people will be a lot more receptive to democracy!
Thank for the ping-prayers.
That is correct, Zimbabwe was a net exporter of food before the current regime took over. It would have been more clear had I not mixed the root of the problem, that of missionaries growing the population above sustainability, with the observation that the British managed that country so much better, leaps and bounds better, than the following governments.
I'm not talking about aid. I'm talking about putting a bullet in Mugabe's head.
Regards, Ivan
Now sir, would you perfer .308 or .338. Executive Outcomes has a .308 Special with your choice of 168gr or 175gr BTHP.
Our upgraded .338 shooting gives you a choice of 250 or 300 gr bullet. Payment will be half now, half on delivery of head of state.
Whichever makes the biggest mess, please.
Regards, Ivan
They're killing babies. Why have unprotected sex if you can't afford to feed your children?
The resources there are better than they are in the cold rocky environment of New England. Early New Englanders survived under very desperate conditions.
The early New Englanders took responsibility for their own survival. Why can't these people?
What's the point in growing a garden when soldiers come and take any food they find? What's the point in working the ground until you fingers bleed only to have your house knocked over onto your vegetables?
Unprotected sex? Can't honestly ask a soldier and his 6 buddies to make sure they are wearing condoms when they rape you.
No, Zimbabwe today is a lot different than Plymouth under Bradford.
The growing season will get better once an ounce or so of lead rest inside Robert Mugabe's brain.
What a crock! Zimbabwe has close to the most arable soil per capita than any nation on earth. They were the "Breadbasket of Africa" up until 12 years ago or so. The population didn't outstrip the food supply, Mugabe and his thugs just stripped the farms of their ability to grow crops. It wasn't humanitarian and missionary work that led Zimbabwe to this, it was socialism and dictatorship.
Why not address the source of the the current trouble, it was giving aid to 'these poor back heathens' by our missionaries...you could not be more wrong in this case. Read up on the history of Rhodesia.
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