O Zimbabwe, Where Art Thou?
Writing by treason on Thursday, 26 of May , 2005 at 9:08 pm
I’ll keep this shorter. Zimbabwe’s economy has collapsed since its president, Robert Mugabe, introduced his land reform program. In a nutshell, that’s where they confiscated white-owned farms and redistributed them to landless blacks because the government felt that it was unfair that the white farmers were wealthy and the blacks were poor. Zimbabwe’s once thriving agricultural sector made it the regional bread basket - a good thing to have in a continent where so many people are starving to death. But all that is destroyed. Ironically, they fed everyone around them at one time, and now face famine themselves. Mugabe blames the drought. Hmmm. All this in less than five years - what an accomplishment.
I won’t go into details about how Zimbabwe removed the white farmers from their property. There were too many stories about suffering livestock and how the farmers’ pets were brutalized for fun. I remember one dog, in particular, had its eyes put out. Why? Why was any of this necessary?
Desperate now, Zimbabwe’s leaders are talking about coaxing the white farmers back to their land so they can get something to eat. Meanwhile, Zimbabwe, the human rights pariah, has been re-elected to the United Nations Human Rights Commission for a three-year term. Who had an issue with this? No one but the usual suspects: Australia, the U.S. and Canada. In return, Zimbabwe, accused of violence, intimidation, brutality, and suppression of free speech against its own people, attacked our human rights record, citing mistreatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. It is to laugh.
Two years ago Libya was elected chairman of the body, and Cuba and Sudan are past members. Zimbabwe’s in fine company then. Shining examples of supporters of human rights, all. The U.N. has a penchant for rewarding thugs and murderers, and no one except the U.S. (and in the case of Zimbabwe, our friend Australia, and sometimes friend Canada) takes issue. Meanwhile, Democrats are concerned that John Bolton has a record of intimidating subordinates. He actually raised his voice to an underling! This should disqualify him from serving as United Nations ambassador. Why, he’s mean!
If that man isn’t representing us, we’re screwed.
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