I generally agree with the sentiments you have expressed; I have appreciated Cathy Buckle’s letters for a few years now. Unfortunately, my sympathy is always tempered by the knowledge that Cathy Buckle along with her father and her lawyer-husband were big-time activists 30 years ago in Rhodesia, and they all cheered when the evil white imperialists were thrown out and Robert Mugabe took power.
Rhodesia, once the thriving “Breadbasket of Africa,” is now the third-world toilet known as Zimbabwe.
” Unfortunately, my sympathy is always tempered by the knowledge that Cathy Buckle along with her father and her lawyer-husband were big-time activists 30 years ago in Rhodesia, and they all cheered when the evil white imperialists were thrown out and Robert Mugabe took power.”
So Cathy, is that true? Not that I doubt Mr. Howard’s truthfulness, but I’d like to hear it from you.
I didn’t know that about her. I wonder if she would say now that it was a mistake to push for that drastic change in the country. Or is she one of those radicals who is so given to ideology that she would not admit even now that they had made a mistake.
Change is not always a good thing.
I did not know that about Cathy Buckle’s family. They sound like liberal fools.
In 1977, a white Rhodesian woman worked as a teacher’s aid in my teacher’s classroom. I remember that they would speak in fairly hushed tones about what was happening there, but I was a kid and did not understand. I guess she saw what was coming, and so fled in the first wave of refugees.
I didn't know that. Maybe that's why she stays, she might feel the tiniest bit responsible. Where are her father and husband now?