In one corner, we have good old Zimbabwe, who apparently hates everyone equally, and thinks that 3,000 deaths a week from AIDS and socio-economic conditions is not a problem. This is the nation that Sunday said that "Racism exists" in Zimbabwe. Their evidence of such claims was not the rape, murder, and removal of property rights and citizenship from the white Zimbabwean minority, but rather that the White Zimbabweans, and their total of less than one percent of the population are not attending as many artistic venues, typically of the kill the white men, and take their land variety as their "native" counterparts. I am willing to conceed that racism did exist in colonial times, (example: Elyssa, the story of a Jew who for some unfathomable reason travels to great Zimbabwe, falls in love with a "white priestess" of the White Baal worshiping city of ancient Zimbabwe, and manages to get the city destroyed by "savages" of the Shona warrior variety, and their wealthy (biracial) leader, and then kills himself. Written in 1900.) but let's get real, Ian Smith is ailing in a nursing home, and the problems with Zimbabwe have to do with Mugabe and his inept regime alone, and have absolutely nothing to do with race. Race to this regime is only one of the many code words for failure.
In the other corner we have the United States, who admittively had some trouble with Hurricane Katrina, but if given a choice all survivors of this disaster would probably rather go through their three days of misery again as opposed to enduring three days of Zimbabwe's harrowing times. The Financial Gazette, an owned and operated division of Propeganda Inc. is hardly worth debating. Still, it is beneficial to remind people that the United States is a land of opportunity, and would never (unlike the United Kingdom) deport Zimbabweans back to the murderous grips of Mugabe's government.
Now being an economic realist, I do not believe that Zimbabwe is beyond the point of no return, but that really just means that I think things can (and will) get much worse. Zimbabwe is now asking the military to farm. No, they are not "pounding their swords into plowshares," but rather farming WITH their swords (or rather modern day parallel). The results thus far: Soldier: These fruit trees must be removed, for you may only plant corn here. Farmer: Um, there is no corn to be found, and we do not have the resources to plant it, fertilize it, or any fuel to power the tractor. Soldier: (while burning fruit trees) did you sell the fuel on the black market? Farmer: No the fuel supply truck used our ration to fuel the truck when it ran out... This would be comical, if it was not so true. Unfortunately, it is.
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All I have to say is that the reason why they are taking back land from the white Africaans is because it was originally stolen from the natives. In other words, they're taking back land that belonged to them before it was stolen. I was born in Zimbabwe and I have relatives over there, and I do believe it will get worse before it gets better, but I don't have a solution to the problem...I just remember when they had elections taht the man who won, was threatening for votes, or something of that nature??? I read it in a newspaper, not sure...
you have to give back what isnt yours