Author: LanceLance
Date: Jul 3, 2008 05:09
NYT
July 3, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
Mbeki’s Shame
By ROGER COHEN
Sometimes stubbornness gets measured in blood, and sometimes the
wounds of race are blinding.
That’s the kindest verdict I can find for the listless mediation in a
devastated Zimbabwe of Thabo Mbeki, the South African president. Faced
by all the brutal expressions of his neighbor Robert Mugabe’s
megalomania, Mbeki has prodded here and there, like a learned
physician mildly intrigued by a corpse.
As a once flourishing economy has imploded, as inflation has assumed
Weimar proportions, as millions have fled to South Africa and as an
octogenarian tyrant has dispatched goons to murder and ravage, Mbeki
has gone on mumbling that the people of Zimbabwe must solve their own
problems.
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