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Robert Mugabe has ruled Zimbabwe since the country's independence a quarter-century ago
National Review, March 28, 2005
* Robert Mugabe has ruled Zimbabwe since the country's independence a quarter-century ago. During those years, Zimbabwe has gone from being the breadbasket of southern Africa to being a basket case begging for handouts from international aid agencies. This terrible decline might have something to do with Mugabe's policy of taking land from successful white farmers and giving it to his friends and relatives.
As a matter of fact, Mugabe recently admitted that 56 percent of the "liberated" land is no longer being cultivated. Of course, Cap'n Bob knows whom to blame. After Condoleezza Rice called Zimbabwe an "outpost of tyranny," back in January, our Bobby said that the secretary of state, born of slave ancestry, should know that the white man is not a friend. Why anybody, white or black, would want to be friends with a thuggish nation-wrecker like Mugabe is a question he did not explore.
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