http://robert-strobel.com/2009/09/28/the-costs-and-effects-of-life-under-mugabe/ A place for me to challenge you and for you to challenge me. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:02:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://robert-strobel.com/2009/09/28/the-costs-and-effects-of-life-under-mugabe/#comment-131 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:57:29 +0000 http://robert-strobel.com/?p=238#comment-131 wicked analysis

]]> http://robert-strobel.com/2009/09/28/the-costs-and-effects-of-life-under-mugabe/#comment-129 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:01:20 +0000 http://robert-strobel.com/?p=238#comment-129 Yeah, well good luck with all that. Africa has a long and bloody history of tribal violence and abuse of power, and if it ever does change course it will take hundreds of years, not decades, to happen. “You can take the monkeys out of the jungle, but you can’t take the jungle out of the monkeys”; all the hand-wringing and well-intentioned efforts to help black Africans help themselves are doomed to failure unless and until they learn to leave their anachronistic tribal squabbling and petty self-interest behind. The West hasn’t learned to do that yet, so don’t hold your breath waiting for a Continent full of people still struggling to enter the 19th century to catch up.

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