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Strategies & Market Trends : Africa and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_urchin who wrote (634)	11/2/2006 4:25:22 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1267

Re: Like many in Kinshasa, the riverside capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zinga had just voted for Jean Pierre Bemba, a former warlord facing the incumbent president, Joseph Kabila, in the country's first democratic elections in more than 40 years. The threat of violence is being taken seriously. I can't help compare the predicament of DRC President Joseph Kabila to that of Vladimir Putin... Whatever the personal merits of Kabila and his challenger J.-P. Bemba, I'd like to quote Napoléon Bonaparte: "Mieux vaut un mauvais général que deux bons." That is, Better to have one bad general than two good ones.() Somehow, Bemba is to Kabila what Khodorkovsky is to Putin --a spoiler(). Of course, Kabila's western patrons would not allow the Congolese President to act like Putin and dispatch a prominent political challenger to some gulag deep into the country's rain forest... How come? Tell me, Searle, why what is good for Russia --namely, a strong man at the helm and political stability, all under the veneer of "free elections"-- is not deemed proper for Congo?!? Even Russian pundits joke about their politics: as they wryly put it, the big suspense about Russian (presidential) elections is not, who's gonna win --Putin, of course! It's who'll come second.... () Notes et références [...] 3. « Je crois que réunir Kellermann et moi en Italie, c’est vouloir tout perdre : je ne puis servir volontiers avec un homme qui se croit le premier général de l’Europe ; et, d’ailleurs, je crois qu’un mauvais général vaut mieux que deux bons. La guerre est comme le gouvernement, c’est une affaire de tact. » fr.wikipedia.org (**) en.wikipedia.org