Via Tim Blair, a well written, straight-forward article distinguished by a lack of hyperbole detailing the plight of the unfortunates left to the mercy of Mugabe while the rest of the world tsk-tsk and wring their collective hands.
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I know what a shock it must be to Leftists of all parties, with their uncritical adoration of African leaders from the saintly, such as Nelson Mandela, to the repulsive, such as Mugabe, to see that sometimes black people can be evil too. But that is the truth. And Zimbabwe may be the prologue to what may happen in South Africa after a decade of failure by Thabo Mbeki is followed by the rule of the dubious Jacob Zuma. It may be very uncomfortable and embarrassing for whites to intervene to stop the butchery of black tyrants. But if they don't, hecatombs of lives will be lost.What will it take for Brits to wake up and notice that their feel-good politics don't feel so good those suffering under the cruel dictators they are politely pretending are amenable to reasoned discourse?
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Nothing. They haven't woken up to the reality of the USSR yet or Cuba, so African dictators won't present much of a challenge to diligent ignorance.
aog, you don't think the internet's access to information will make it almost impossible to ignore the obvious?
It's always been obvious, and been ignored by the Left and the intelligentsia. The only difference we might see is that it will harder to fool the normals.
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