On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:25:56 GMT, "Gregory Elich" <gelich@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>The media re****ts about Zimbabwe’s elections present them as a clash
between
>the ‘evil’ Mugabe and the ‘heroic’ Tsvangirai, an electoral battle for
>Zimbabwe’s soul.
Which is true -- the media re****ts did do that.
>Mugabe is depicted as having brought Zimbabwe to its knees,
>causing widespread poverty and enforcing terror and repression, and
Which is also true, not only in the media re****ts, but in the reality of
life
in Zimbabwe.
>Tsvangirai is discussed as the harbinger of a dignified ‘revolution’
against
>Mugabeism (2). This is a fantasy. It ignores the key role played by
Western
>governments and financial institutions in using sanctions, tough
diplomacy
>and the proxy interventionists of the South Africa government and the
>African Union to isolate and harry Zimbabwe over the past decade. Such
>self-serving external meddling has contributed to Zimbabwe’s economic
>crisis - and it has dangerously distorted the political dynamics inside
>Zimbabwe and elsewhere in the south of Africa.
While there has been a lot of self-serving meddling, it has had very
little
effect on Zimbabwe's economic crisis, which has been brought about mainly
by
Mugabe himself, starting with his self-serving meddling and intervention
in
the civil war in the DRC, which stretched Zimbabwe's resources to breaking
point.
--
Keep well,
Steve Hayes
http://people.tribe.net/hayesstw
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