Re: [A-List] "Jacob Zuma: US and her Western allies want South Africa to attack Zimbabwe militarily"

[Patrick Bond <pbond@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

james daly wrote:
> ...
> In the same way, the US would want every liberation movement in Southern 
> Africa severely weakened if not completely annihilated. Zimbabwe's Zanu-PF, 
> Namibia's SWAPO, Angola's MPLA, Mozambique's Frelimo, Zambia's ousted UNIP 
> and South Africa's ANC are all viewed in the same light with Hezbollah, 
> Hamas and every other popular Islamic group.
>   

Reason lost me there... the Namibians are the most likely southern 
African country to host the US military's African Command; Angola's MPLA 
does just fine with US oil company bribes (and Condolleezza Rice's name 
on a Caltex ship is evidence of cronyism); Frelimo is a prize student of 
the Washington Consensus (as was ZanuPF in 1995, earning the highest 
award for good performance the World Bank gives: "highly satisfactory"); 
Zambia's "ousted" UNIP a target? hah; and the ANC? The ANC that is 
utterly subservient to Washington on economics, and also on politics for 
the most crucial subimperial support functions? That ANC?

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