Wednesday, June 25, 2008
A recurring theme throughout History - the Ascent of the Psycho
A student of History could write a paper just on this theme alone which is basically people who belonged in lunatic asylums have run empires, countries and nations. Nero, Caligula, Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Ceausescu and the list goes on and on. As all the world knows Zimbabwean president or to be more specific the technical ex-president, Robert Mugabe, has run his country into the ground, an economic shambles with the usual starvation, mass fear and people trying to leave. Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change party, won the election in March but apparently not by a wide enough margin so there was to be a runoff but Mugabe's Zanu-PF goon squads have been intimidating, torturing and killing people so Tsvangirai backed out. Now as usual the United Nations seems impotent to do something, can't get the supplies and humanitarian aid through, doesn't even have a consensus yet as it should over what to do about this 84-year old thug who's been in power way too long. The larger question is what exactly is the purpose of the UN anymore? why are rogue bodies allowed to have a say and can we replace the UN with something else?
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You've said it all, the UN is a joke, which should be replaced, but then again Nancy Pelosi could come riding in on her broomstick and take over, yikes!
ReplyDeleteDidn't Billy Boy once want to be UN Sec'y Gen or was that just a rumor?
ReplyDeleteYou may be right, or are we thinking about how Hillary was going to make him a Supreme Court justice if she won?
ReplyDeleteOMG, I'm gonna have nightmares.
ReplyDeleteIt's like the world is the Devil's Playground. I recall reading somewhere years ago that there's been more people killed in the last century at the hands of evil dictators than in all other centuries combined. Here we complain about our jobs and such but how'd you like to be somebody growing up in a country like Zimbabwe? kinda puts it in perspective.
ReplyDeleteVery true, even with all our imperfections this country is still better than any other.
ReplyDeleteWhich is why I think we'll survive even an Obama presidency.
Which is why all those celebrities who promise us they'll leave under a Republican administration ultimately decide to stay, where they gonna go?
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