Vatican: When the plumage is better than the dying bird |
| Published: July 21, 2007, 1:26 pm |
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Vatican: When the plumage is better than the dying birdPresident Mugabe this week disclosed what the British establishment has been up to in respect of Zimbabwe politics. The British establishment has been trying to sponsor a coup here in order to bring about a regime type it hopes will protect its interests in the country. This new, muscular effort by the British establishment would seem to suggest that its hope and belief in an MDC-led regime change has evaporated, what with repeated electoral defeats of its fissiparous proxy by Zanu-PF. A ballot-based, MDC-led regime change strategy would have at least given Britain's imperial project here a veneer of both democratic respectability and legitimacy. Now even that respectability is an encumbrance. The fig leaf is off, thrusting to the fore a coarser strategy that throws caution to the wind. Better than a British gulag?Does the British establishment hope and expect the Zanla/Zipra-derived command of our national security [ Full article ] |
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