I know. I was being partly sarcastic.

Indy Conservative on April 15, 2008 at 1:19 PM

I knew that – just chalk it up to my poor writing skills and a bad habit of answering rhetorical questions.

TooTall on April 15, 2008 at 10:54 AM

I know. I was being partly sarcastic.

Worth reporting.

And who knows, we might intervene some day if our national security is at risk for some reason.

Mbeki is Xhosa…

Anyone know the tribal politics between those two tribes?

My guess is theres also a cultural context we are missing here.

And what the U.S. has to do with Zimbabwe?

Indy Conservative on April 15, 2008 at 9:47 AM

Absolutely nothing but that doesn’t stop me from recognizing corruption of the worse kind when I see it.

I’m not advocating interference by the United States since we have too much to lose and too little to gain. Maybe it’s time for the United States to act only when we stand to make a material gain; acting for humanitarian reasons doesn’t seem to be working that well.

They don’t want to hassle Mugabe too much (“Crisis? What crisis?”) as someone might see the parallels and blow the whistle. It’s about screwing the peons and lifetime employment.

This was genius: they have made a Marxist with terrorist leanings — Nelson Mandela — into an international hero and patron saint of leftism, such that even his Marxist successor Mbeki, a corrupt bag of scum, gets an almost completely free ride from the international press.

There really isn’t a parallel on the right, since we don’t like corrupt, murderous scum, Marxist or otherwise, and tend to eventually seek their ouster even when they are politically or financially convenient (too many examples to name).

A: South Africa led by the African National Congress.

Supporting the Apartheid government in South Africa is still hurting the United States today. You have to triangulate against the old “New Left” student activists that are now the elected officials in these countries. If you don’t do it early you end up with the more South Africas in the future.

FOR THOSE who argue that democracies are natural allies in international affairs, South Africa poses a vexing challenge.

Just how much of a democrat is Mbeki? The ANC was allied with the Soviet Union and holds a lot of power in SA. Mbeki’s probably jealous of all the power that Mugabe has and would like to have it himself. Fortunately SA has a somewhat democratic tradition and competing interest groups, so he can’t seize total power.

President Thabo Mbeki has consistently allied itself with the world’s rogue states and against the Western democracies. It has defended Iran’s nuclear program and resisted sanctions against it; shielded Sudan and Burma from the sort of pressure the United Nations once directed at the apartheid regime; and enthusiastically supported one-sided condemnations of Israel by the U.N. Human Rights Council.

Lefties usually stick together – guess the WaPo didn’t get the memo…

We’re too stretched out. We can’t send the Marines.

Already Hussein Banana O’Samba in a major speech on Foreign Policy yesterday said that when he’s president, he’ll “pull out the troops from Siberia and send the Special Forces to Switzerland to destroy a nuclear reactor suspected of being used to build a nuclear bomb by that rogue nation.”