Len > To think that Mbeki or anyone else in power anywhere would trade the lives of his countrymen and women for a political agenda or race hatred.
Clearly, he must believe the end justifies the means and that he's acting in the best interest of his nation -- even though no one outside his circle of cronies believes that.
Mugabe must believe that that it was worth destroying his country in order to get rid of some white farmers, most of whom he had given permission to farm in the first place. Some people think Mugabe has tertiary syphilis and they could be right because nothing else makes any sense.
As you probably know, I believe that 9/11 was an "inside job", and so Bush and Cheney must believe that the end, whatever it was ("saving" Israel, grabbing Iraqi oil), justified doing that.
> I am under the impression that those who live in harsh environments have a harsh outlook and solution to problems.
On the contrary, African leaders, if that's whom you are referring to, are the elite of the elite. They live on a scale very few people do, anywhere, and that means having multiple homes, attending the best schools and universities in the world and doing their shopping in the most fashionable boutiques of Europe. Harshness is for their subjects, not for them.
> We here in West seem to value life more, since we do not see the overwhelming loss of life everyday and have been desensitized by it.
Unless you consider the Americans who are dying for nothing in Iraq and Afghanistan. But that brings us back to what Bush and Cheney are thinking about and what they hope to achieve as result of the Americans who have died or been injured? |
