Po widdle Wodesia
"The United States is rolling out yet another programme tht seeks to block all avenues of donor assistance to Zimbabwe in a bid to force regime change," The Sunday Mail reported Sunday."In one of its recent strategic advisory documents to the US government, Havard University's John F. Kennedy School of government implores donors to withhold assistance to Zimbabwe until "recovery" is possible with new leadership." it said.
Does anyone objectively disagree that in order for economic recovery to take place, there needs to be an infrastructure of property rights, and that with the current kleptocracy in place, that simply doesn't exist? Even Somalia is better off in some ways, because with no functioning central government, they don't have the same powers of theft.
And whose money is it anyway? Do the Zimbabweans really think there is a moral imperative to steal money from US taxpayers to prop up Zanu-PF?
Mugabe's spokesman George Charamba told the paper that such efforts would be fruitless."The US vainly hopes that they can tantalise Zimbabweans through empty offers of aid to self-destruct," Charamba said.
They're doing quite a nice job of self-destruction now. Maybe aid would speed it up.
"It is clear the US have a problem with the liberation ethos as well as its symbol President Robert Mugabe and are thus intent on reversing all that together with the gains of independence," he said."The overall intention is clearly to turn Zimbabwe into a neo-colony."
"Reversing the gains of independence?" I'm all for that, on humanitarian grounds. The average Rhodesian was better off under Ian Smith, who for his racism at least wasn't bulldozing slums, stealing farms for nonfarmer cronies, and running the printing press full time. And if Zimbabwe can't establish an honest and stable government for itself, I'm all for giving its administration to a country that can; Switzerland would be a good choice.
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