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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) | [ Next Thread |
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] Date Posted: 16:00:43 12/05/04 Sun In reply to: Ian (Australia) 's message, "The thing is..." on 15:35:58 12/05/04 Sun I wholeheartedly agree, but this does make us sound rather like rabid neo-cons, doesn't it? Precise intervention with the idea of promoting freedom and prosperity and the ability to govern one's own country in security may be fashionable in American polical circles, but not really in many other places. As for Rhodesia (Zimbabwe is a silly name, I have no objection to Botswana for Bechuanaland, Tanzania for Tanganyika, or many another name-change, but Zimbabwe makes no sense), I think that it is our responsibility to do something. Say what you like about our old way of doing things, but under the old regime South African tanks would long since have rolled across the border. This would have prevented the idea of forced land-grabs becoming fashionable in Namibia, where they're starting the same sort of thing, and from whence it will no doubt spread to other neighbouring countries with white populations... fortunately for me, my Zambian relatives are all townies and can just sell up and move back to Blighty, as many have done. Others will not be so lucky. But it's not the British population for whom I feel most in all of this, since, much as we might gnash our teeth, we ain't going to starve. It's the poor benighted Africans whose lives are being made immesurably worse by these acts, especially since the pride of some of these people, Mugabe in particular, means that famine relief is not being accepted and starvation is now a reality in one of the only fertile countries in Africa. Shocking, the whole thing. If the Commonwealth as it is can not do anything even about this sort of thing on its doorstep, then the whole institution might just as well be wound up. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |