By: oaf
The New York Timesweighs in:... Citing a leaked central bank document, Reuters reported Tuesday that prices of basic items like meat, cooking oil and clothes had risen 223 percent in the past week...
View ArticleBy: papakwanz
Oh yeah, writing plainly is great. Let's just all stop writing sarcastically!
View ArticleBy: mr_roboto
There are like three layers of sarcasm in some of these comments. I'm having difficulty understanding the meaning and intent of these comments. I like sarcasm too, sometimes, but it can be very helpful...
View ArticleBy: asok
Interacting with another country does not necessarily have to involve any military force or coersion. Somewhat relevant here, and would do well as a mantra for US foreign policy.
View ArticleBy: vbfg
I never said everything was due to Britain, but many, many of the root causes of Zimbabwe's problems lie in their past history as a colony. You are quite correct. It gives d1ckheads with waning...
View ArticleBy: dreamsign
But suddenly the U.S. is the asshole for not doing what loads of people are arguing they shouldn't have done in Iraq in the first place or indeed even Afghanistan?Iraq was not humanitarian...
View ArticleBy: oaf
I think Malor's saying we should invade and give the farms back to the rich white people. You know, that's the only way it can ever work. It's clearly better than the government stealing the farms from...
View ArticleBy: papakwanz
Yes, three blind mice, because more advanced technology = better people! And thank god Europeans came to Africa to teach them language. Why, before they learned to talk, those primitive -- excuse me,...
View ArticleBy: Malor
TBM, you seem to be pointing those comments at me pretty strongly, when we're not disagreeing at all. I was the one who said that throwing the experienced farmers off their land was a very bad idea,...
View ArticleBy: three blind mice
From other comments in the thread, it sounds like painting Mugabe as a simple thug is just as broad an overgeneralization. That's right malor - it's all the fault of those white farmers and their...
View ArticleBy: Slithy_Tove
it had nothing to do with trying to be "fair" it had to do with political patronage. Mugube was trying to pay off his supporters. What do you think 'fair' means, when translated from populist stump...
View ArticleBy: mediareport
Overview of human rights issues in Zimbabwe. Mugabe's scapegoating of gay folks definitely affects my opinion, Malor, but the country's slide into hell has gone hand in hand with Mugabe's slide into...
View ArticleBy: UbuRoivas
Zimbabwe is used to being thoroughly beaten. Their cricket team is abysmal.
View ArticleBy: elpapacito
I bet the farmers wouldn't get much even if they cultivated cannabis. In Marocco, they get (according to some article I can't find damn) no more then 3% of the profit estimated in 3 billion euro an year.
View ArticleBy: Malor
I think Malor's saying we should invade and give the farms back to the rich white people. You know, that's the only way it can ever work. You couldn't possibly have gotten any farther from my actual...
View ArticleBy: papakwanz
I never said everything was due to Britain, but many, many of the root causes of Zimbabwe's problems lie in their past history as a colony. Zimbabwe is in the state it finds itself for a number of...
View ArticleBy: Smedleyman
As an aside...this "oil" business....suddenly people are hawks when it comes to nation building in a tyrannized African nation? How, exactly, is this a military problem? Indeed, how is it our problem...
View ArticleBy: Wolof
loyalty toward 'Comrade Bob' The whole not wanting a million refugees thing might also have something to do with it.
View ArticleBy: jet_silver
Emphasizing one of Malor's points, it is not easy to run a farm profitably, though it is dead simple to have a farm. People who can run farms profitably are not unskilled labor even though they may...
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