Christopher Hitchens, a person who I admire greatly, has some out with a new article slamming the government of Zimbabwe, run by dictator Robert Mugabe. Mugabe recently lost an election, but used fraud to force his opponent from taking over the Presidency. And Hitchens surely makes a strong case. Hitchens has been one of the forefront leaders for human rights and democracy. He took a bold stand siding with President Bush against the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. Hitchens shows that he hasn't given up his ideals:
The dialectic between "rogue" and "failed" is not always easy to measure. Iraq (which under Saddam Hussein was the only state to have met all four of the criteria I mentioned above) became a failed state as a consequence of becoming a rogue one and thereby brought ruinous sanctions, isolation, and corruption on itself. Afghanistan became a rogue state as a consequence of being a failed one—often through no fault of its own—in which international political gangsters could find a base. It was internal "rogue" behavior that almost destroyed Rwanda as a country, that sent vast numbers of refugees across its borders, and that helped trigger the heartbreaking civil war in Congo that may well by now have taken millions of lives. The disease that was carried in that case was the plague of ethno-fascist tribalism of which we now see the full harvest.
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