In a 1990 dissertation while she was at Oxford;
U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice praised the 1979-1980 British peacekeeping operation that led to the rule of Zimbabwean dictator, Robert Mugabe, as “a model and a masterpiece in the evolution of international peacekeeping”…
I would guess that the overwhelming majority of the institutional left would agree with Susan Rice’s assessment even today, with full, though media-cocooned knowledge of the results of Mugabe’s Marxist legacy. In their world, race and egalitarian feudalism trumps prosperity and morality. No matter how evil Mugabe is, he is black and Rhodesia was a relatively prosperous example of white colonialism of a black nation. Ian Smith will always be remembered by the Left as Satan despite the reality.
Today, Susan Rice, like all multi-millionaire socialists likely believes that Mugabe’s Marxism is just a little flawed but Obama and their team will lead the US to a more enlightened Marxism.
I was in Zimbabwe several time in the 1990’s and still have good friends in that country. But I never saw anything that would bring me to the conclusion that Rica has. Nothing more than an airhead as far as I am concerned.
How embarrassing for her.
WHO General-Director Margaret Chan declared that North Korea had its obesity problem under control:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/good-news-who-n-koreas-got-obesity-under-control
These leftists live in such a bubble that one expects a prince to kiss them and wake them up from their hundred-year slumber.
I wrote a paper at army staff school many years ago saying that UN peace keeping was a waste of time. I gave a brief synopsis of every mission undertaken and explained what had happened to those places since to show that nothing had been achieved. Since the Canadian Forces loved sunning themselves on Cypriot beaches at the time you can imagine how popular that opinion was.
Right from the get-go I have thought of His Foulness as “young Robert”. Nor was there ever a doubt that Robert Mugabe would be even more effective in Washington than the Foul One.
As I recall there was a free and fair election held in 1979 that saw Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole become Zimbabwe’s legitimate leader. For no apparent reason other than that Robert Mugabe’s party boycotted that election, the “international community” decided the election results should not stand, and they pressed for another one in 1980, which Mugabe won. He might well have done so anyway a few years later, since he appeared much more moderate back then. But it was clear that the fix was in to get the terrorist in power ASAP.
” Rice made it clear that it was the white Rhodesians that were the impediment to peace.”
Good grief. Peace came at a higher price that she could ever had envisioned. The country has never recovered from that “peace”. Must have been from that familiar perspective that all whites are evil.
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The lunatics have definitely taken over. I remember when Rhodesia was fighting for its existence and I’d like to find all the people I had arguments with in the 1980’s about what I thought would happen if Mugabe got in and say “I told you so”. All of the moonbats I’d talk to in Vancouver at that time were convinced that once there was “democracy” in Rhodesia that it would be an earthly paradise.
What I remember best about those days was the Soldier of Fortune articles about the war and the “Be a man among men” recruiting posters for the Rhodesian army. My proposal, based on that particular theme, was to recruit doctors to my very underserviced area, by making it clear to any doctors were interested in coming out here that we weren’t interested in metrosexuals, wimps or part-time urban doctors. For some reason it got a cool reception. Not quite sure why.
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“White Rhodesians were equally stunned [by Mugabe’s party’s victory], as many simply recoiled in terror and amazement,” Rice wrote. “To them Mugabe represented very nearly the devil incarnate.”
Ha-ha! I call BS.
Speak to the black Zimbabweans in Canada today and they will most surely tell you that devil incarnate is Mugabe. I met a few. They said the same thing – bloody murderer is ruling our country.