- Here is an absolutely brilliant article by Peter McKay
in the UK.
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- It's a hoot to read and hits the nail on the head. Ian
Smith's White minority government was the BEST... PLUS... would whites
have made enough concessions? Nobody knows because we weren't given a chance!
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- We whites in Africa were never given an opportunity to
try our solutions and our options. We were told, in no uncertain terms
by Britain and the US, and by the likes of Kissinger, Andrew Young, etc
- "Black Majority Rule" is NOT NEGOTIABLE. What complete fools.
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- I love the comments and rants in the article - hillarious
stuff - straight to the point! --Jan
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- TheDailyMail.co.uk
- 3-23-7
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- Cabinet Minister Peter Hain says: "It's high time
the world united and told [Robert] Mugabe to go. To go now. And then, through
sanction and support for the brave Zimbabwean resistance to his despotism,
to make sure he does."
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- Bravo! Hain is said to have "put his job on the
line" by saying this. God knows why.
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- Meanwhile, Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague says:
"We must make it clear that the international community stands ready
to support and assist Zimbabwe, if its leadership is prepared to make the
dramatic change needed to give the country a truly democratically elected
government - a government that is determined to provide hope and relief
for its people, and is committed to economic and governance reform."
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- Blah, blah, blah. Hain's a hypocrite and Hague's a windbag.
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- Neither Labour nor the Tories have a clue what to do
about Mugabe and Zimbabwe, other than make vaguely supportive noises to
opposition politicians there.
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- They're hoping for a coup against Mugabe followed by
the installation of a more reasonable democratic regime.
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- Is poor, beaten-up opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai
the one? Perhaps so, but do remember that Robert Mugabe was once the poor,
ill-treated political leader on whom we pinned our hopes in 1980 to replace
Ian Smith and his white minority government.
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- Smith's Rhodesia (as it was then called) was a land of
milk and honey compared with Mugabe's starving, destitute Zimbabwe. Blacks
were better fed, better educated and enjoyed greater access to medical
care.
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- Labour's Harold Wilson led the charge against Smith.
It distracted his comrades in Britain from noticing the sheer uselessness
of his government.
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- The Tories bottled out of their original policy - trying
to encourage Smith to increase black participation in his government -
in favour of finding an African leader they felt they could trust to set
up a free and fair Zimbabwe.
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- Mugabe was their man. If he is swept aside in a military
coup, will Zimbabwe finally get a reasonable leader who doesn't plunder
the country's dwindling assets to prop up the luxurious lifestyle of his
family and cohorts? Perhaps, perhaps not.
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- There's nothing much we can do about it. Regime change
is not an option. Zimbabwe doesn't pose a military threat to the West,
and South Africa's government wouldn't let us interfere anyway.
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- Zimbabweans, God help them, must sort out their own problems.
They must find a way of removing Mugabe without filling the vacuum with
someone who will turn out to be worse.
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- In the meantime, Messrs Hain and Hague - as well as Foreign
Secretary Margaret Beckett - should desist from pointless breast-beating.
They merely feed the paranoia of Mugabe and South Africa's President Thabo
Mbeki about "colonial interference".
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- Perhaps Smith's Zimbabwe could never have worked. Whites
might never have given enough concessions. But it was never really tried.
Black majority rule was the answer. The result was an outright disaster
for all except Mugabe and his cohorts.
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- So it's better if our politicians - Labour and Tory -
keep quiet about Zimbabwe. They screwed it up last time. It's quite likely
they'd do so again.
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- Hain made his name fighting white rule in Africa. He's
proud of his anti-apartheid activism. But the world has moved on.
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- Government by the majority isn't always benign. The white
minority rule of Ian Smith was infinitely better than the black majority
rule of Robert Mugabe.
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- Hain could never see that. That's why he's now part of
the problem and not the solution.
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- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/columnists.html?
in_article_id=443104&in_page_id=1772&in_author_id=227
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