Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

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Poster's comments:

When the long present dictator, Robert Mugabe, dies (he is almost 90), am I supposed to work more in Tennessee, USA, to help rebuild this once wonderful country in Africa?

Why don't the neighbors, as poor as they are, help rebuild this country? It would appear to be in their self interest to do so.

Whoever rebuilds this country, and I believe it will get rebuilt, will have to take a lot of their time to do so. I am thinking decades.  After all, it was a bread basket of sorts at one time.

I still do not believe in the nation-state idea of government, which does put me in the minority.  Alternative forms of government, like tribal, can also do the same thing if rebuilding is called for, and often do better. Now I freely admit tribal government is often dictatorial, too.

The country of Zimbabwe use to be called Rhodesia, by the way.

I understand Mugabe has at least held this Country together in his own dictatorial way, kind of like Tito did in Yugoslavia in his time. But Tito is long dead, and so will Mugabe be shortly, and we are still stuck with the consequences.