Comments on James Cleverly: African leaders need to show leadership

'What Mugabe was in the 70's and 80's'What he was ...

2008-06-25T01:12:00.000Z

'What Mugabe was in the 70's and 80's'

What he was - and is - is an evil-minded murdering marxist thug who should have been executed before he came within a mile of power.

That Britain let him do so is a mark of shame and the resultant destruction of one the towering economies of Africa proves the point beyond contention.

Ian Smith was an awkward cuss who led a white elite who gave up power far too grudgingly; but who can now argue that his vision of a slow enfranchisement of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe running hand in hand with improvements in education wouldn't have been better than the catastrophe we have now?

Hang your heads trendy lefty campaigners for Black African majority rule at all costs, you have helped murder thousands.

In Iraq and Afghanistan the exit strategy was neve...

2008-06-24T20:12:00.000Z

In Iraq and Afghanistan the exit strategy was never particularly clear, in Zimbabwe the exit strategy is clear - the new regime is easy to put into place and has already won the first round of the election.

We could keep on saying that this is a problem for African leaders to sort out, or the UN could allow NATO/international forces to go in as they did in Iraq and Afghanistan.

If we had a duty to go into Afghanistan, Iraq, Sierra Leone, Somali, and Serbia, we equally have a duty to deal with the situation in Zimbabwe and despose the illegal despot. We never left Russia to deal with Serbia, and we should not leave South Africa to deal with Zimbabwe. Troops in now!