Cowardice
and Appeasement
By
Hilmar von Campe
British Prime Minister
Tony Blair, host and chairman of G-8 summit in
Gleneagles
,
Scotland
, focused the agenda on easing poverty in
Africa
and climate change. In their final declaration the 8 leaders without
considering their own indebtedness committed their nations to double
the financial aid to
Africa
until 2010 from the present 25 billions to $50 billions. Shortly
before the summit already 18 nations received complete debt relief,
which most likely means, that the international taxpayers relieved the
banks from the consequences of the irresponsible lending. 14 of the
recipients were from
Africa
. Between 1960 and 2000
Africa
received $500 billion worth of financial aid. Nevertheless the African
economy contracted 0.6% between 1975 and 2000. The
United States
is supposed to contribute $4 billion of the additional $25 billion.
At the time of the
summit President Robert Mugabe destroyed an estimated 25% of the
Zimbabwe
economy within a month leveling with bulldozers the homes of about 1.5
million of his own citizens in what he called an “urban renewal
campaign” From the first day of his presidency in 1980
Marxist/Leninist Mugabe accumulated a criminal record. He eliminated
his black opposition by murdering thousands of them, harassed the
white farmers, began to have them chased from their properties by mobs
and practically destroyed the national agriculture, committed mass
murder of whole villages, mass rape and torture.
Zimbabwe
, formerly South-Rhodesia, was not a British colony but a flourishing
nearly independent nation within the Commonwealth with her own
constitution and elected parliament and government of both races.
South Rhodesia was called the bread basket of
Africa
because of its highly developed agriculture and management. Black and
white citizens had a bright future. The nation wanted full
independence.
Britain
however had other ideas.
During all the years
of the independence battle all British governments insisted on the
inclusion of Mugabe. For administrative purposes it wanted to combine
their colonies North Rhodesia and
Malawi
(Nyasaland) with
South Rhodesia
, which had a far advanced government and economic structure, and was
opposed to a Marxist structure. There were also internal election and
international image concerns in
London
. But the main push came from the African Marxists leaders, Kenneth
Kaunda, Josua Nyerere, Hastings Banda, Samora Machel and others who
didn’t want white or black conservative leaders around. When 29
tribal chiefs, the true leaders of the black population, arrived in
London
, after having traveled to
India
,
Pakistan
and Europe to make their independence case, and having been received
by the pope in
Rome
, the British prime minister refused to receive them.
Britain
appeased the Left like Chamberlain had appeased Hitler. The government
denied
South Rhodesia
full independence, and with the help of the American and South African
governments, manipulated the existing coalition out of power and
installed Mugabe.
There was no concern
for the Rhodesian people. The British establishment is responsible for
the disaster of
Zimbabwe
. Involved in this process of betrayal over the years were the Home-
Heath-, Wilson-, MacMillan- and Thatcher governments. Mugabe became
rich, ruined the country and destroyed the lives of
Zimbabwe
’s people. Instead of lifting Africa to their own high level of
development through own efforts,
Zimbabwe
became a miserable recipient of foreign aid with a population close to
starvation. And that has been in different versions the story of the
continent of
Africa
.
Now comes Tony Blair,
to organize “Help for
Africa
” to overcome poverty and hunger without any recognition of his
predecessor’s failures, and waste of money. The G8 “leaders”
opened another round of the same failed Western policy. They enrich
corrupt government receivers and the “Lords of Poverty” as author
Graham Hancock calls the international establishment of development
aid bureaucrats indebting their taxpayers even more. Another country,
Niger
, is already knocking at the Western doors. 2.5 million persons are
threatened with starvation. We could learn from the Chinese who all
over
Africa
avoid government involvement but have created a reputation of helping
people getting jobs by seeing through directly infrastructure projects
like roads.
The Mugave principle
was applied to countless other situations but not restricted to
Africa
. G-8 decided in Gleneagle to provide $3 billion to help the
Palestinian Arab terrorists to form their own state. They simply
don’t want to learn. This money is not only wasted but finances our
and
Israel
’s deadly enemies. Money does not heal hatred, which destroys
democracy. Hamas and Hezbollah have neither laid down their weapons
nor given up their intention to destroy
Israel
and now pretend to be democrats. I don’t trust Abbas.
Sharon
forces his own people out of their homes and delivers historic
Israel
homeland to terrorists without any guarantee that terrorism ends in
order to make
Israel
more defendable. Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however,
stated, that retreating from
Gaza
will more realistically embolden the terrorists. Dr. Mahmoud al-Zahar,
Hamas leader in the
Gaza
strip, considers this retreat a victory for to their terror campaign.
According to World Net Daily he is determined, to continue the armed
struggle against the Jewish state until “all territories” are in
Palestinian hands.
A friend who has spent
45 years working in intelligence in rather senior positions commented
to me that most of these kinds of arrangements “fail to fix the
inherent problem. Our culture of coming up with quick solutions never
allows us to focus long range on a problem. There are always countless
‘hot issues’ that have to get immediate attention and priority,
and they tie up our assets to a point that long-range objectives were
an exception rather than a rule”. If that doesn’t change it will
destroy
America
.
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