Wednesday November 9, 07:21 AM Angry Mugabe tells US ambassador to "go to hell" HARARE (Reuters) - President Robert Mugabe told the U.S. ambassador to Zimbabwe to "go to hell" on Tuesday, after the envoy blamed the country's economic and political crisis on mismanagement and corrupt rule. Source: Yahoo news Now no one would need to tell Mugabe to go there! He is well on the way and unfortunately taking his nation with him!
Angry Mugabe tells US ambassador to "go to hell". The ambassador should have smiled and said "It's already taken care of. Washington assigned me to Zimbabwe". Unfortunately, part of being an ambassador is being diplomatic. So you can't say things like that to foreign heads of state.
The classic definition of diplomacy Ah, Mugabe should have said it in such a way that the ambassador looked forward to the trip. -=Steve=-
It's so weird. This brutal dictator went off the rails after many years of more-or-less consciencious governing. Why, I wonder. I have been reading a few articles from some international law organizations centered in Africa; the horror in Zimbabwe is much worse than is being reported here in the U.S. (No oil and they're black, I guess, so we don't care.) He has systematically terrorized all other government officials through violence and murder. He has so disrupted the local economy that little reamins to keep people even fed. Now, I do understand the ideology. He had been promising land reform for years and had delivered nothing. He couldn't, really, within the confines of Zimbabwe's legal system because he'd have had to pay for the property he seized and redistributed. But his violent "land reform" program has rendered his country a hellish place, a nightmare on Earth.
