Isn't Mugabe the classic strong man that is needed? We wanted Saddam gone once.

[Bang to Rights]

Take any country dominated by foreigners, exploited, abused and then told to get on with it. You'll find far more failures than successes. Simply saying, "Gosh, chaps, get on with it, would you, been 30 years now" is intellectual laziness.

.... and you somehow believe that I'm making a point of arguement against that thought? Tell me, toe rag, how did you find your way from "What Africa?" ..... to defending the colonialization of Africa? As the Americans would say .... "duh!"

In any case, that's not what Fire's about either, is it.

 

[Bang to Rights]

..... the dramatic failures of many other sub-saharan African states.

And what do they have in common? Colonialism.

"What do they have in common? Colonialism"??? ALL of Africa (excepting Ethiopia) was colonized, you poor sod. Are you really trying to make a point? If so - what might that be

 

[Poi E]

Toddle off back to Stormfront, there's a good chap.

 

[Bang to Rights]

Lead the way, comrade.

 

[Lock&Light]

Too many of Africa's revolutionary leaders have followed the path of the pig, Napoleon, as described by Orwell in "Animal Farm".

 

[Bang to Rights]

Too many of Africa's revolutionary leaders have followed the path of the pig, Napoleon, as described by Orwell in "Animal Farm".

I don't know if it's appropriate to laugh

or to cry

.

It's very funny, what you wrote, but it's also so true that's not really funny at all.