tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11148260.post111924532732252149..comments2023-09-06T08:56:14.610-04:00Comments on Eidelblog: Mugabe's assault on the poorUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11148260.post-1119331678675922162005-06-21T01:27:00.000-04:002005-06-21T01:27:00.000-04:00Oh, I was definitely asking that rhetorically. By ...Oh, I was definitely asking that rhetorically. By the same token, I ask what's happened to the Constitution. I know very well what has: it's perpetually ignored.<BR/><BR/>That's an excellent point that our busybody Western culture has broken up what was Zimbabwe's natural order. The West has destroyed countless native cultures, from the Native Americans to Australian aborigines. This forgets that in exchange, we've increased their life spans, the comfort of their lives, and their prosperity.Perry Eidelbushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09707615907666584863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11148260.post-1119300652972067782005-06-20T16:50:00.000-04:002005-06-20T16:50:00.000-04:00Just a clarification. I don't buy the 'gulag of o...Just a clarification. I don't buy the 'gulag of our time' any more than I believe Marxism is a viable economic policy. I was playing the 'op-for' there.TKChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00034651417671564654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11148260.post-1119300494559516702005-06-20T16:48:00.000-04:002005-06-20T16:48:00.000-04:00"But as an avowed Marxist, Mugabe won't allow any ..."But as an avowed Marxist, Mugabe won't allow any economic activity that isn't under his government's auspices." According to some, Mugabe is doing what is right and consequences be damned. See Vietnam. The far left said what America was doing there was wrong. Whether or not you agree with this, what happened after we left was an unmittigated disaster. But the Marxists won against 'Imperialist Amerika' and that was what mattered. <BR/><BR/>As scary as this may seem, I've been told by a fringe left winger that American industrialism being spread to the third world via globalization was destroying a culture of subsistance farming. I was stunned. How was putting an end to subsistance farming a bad thing? No answer.<BR/><BR/>"I ask myself, "What is wrong with us?" when our Western news obsesses about Abu Ghraib, Gitmo prisoners and Michael Jackson..."<BR/>A rhetorical question, right? If it is not, then see the above. Gitmo is the 'gulag of our time' don't you know. And since the American fascist gulag in Cuba is the Earth-Mother-Gia's unvarnished truth then how could America even possibly be able to address the situation in Zimbabwe. We don't have the moral clarity to do so.... and so on and so forth.TKChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00034651417671564654noreply@blogger.com