On the other hand they will cry foul when Mugabe does what they don’t want him to do, mainly hit where it hurts, their economic interests, when the whites owned all the land and other economic means they didn’t call Mugabe a dictator, on the contrary he was a statesman, he even got an honorary doctorate from a University in Massachausettes, now they want to take it back. The problem with Mugabe is not that he is a “dictator” but he did not obey their orders and they will do everything they can to take him down.

Without going too far you can look at Eritrea, the GOE is only answerable to its people and works for the people of Eritrea, they don’t bow down to the dictates of the super power or its minions, because of that they have been doing everything they could, used every trick in the book since 1998 to destroy Eritrea but unlike other African countries Eritreans learned in their bitter struggle for independence that first and foremost you rely on yourself and no matter how much they mess with Eritrea they will never defeat the Eritrean people. As I write repeatedly in this forum, Ethiopians can learn a lesson for today and tomorrow from Eritrea, all Ethiopians should unite and fight for their freedom by uniting the Ethiopian people under one goal and foster real patriotism among the people and they can defeat the tyranny that is gripping Ethiopia now and be free forever.

It is the same old double standard the US arrogantly uses. It is not new. Every US administration since America became a superpower has been doing it with the likes of Mobutu Sese Seko, China’s Chiang Kai Shek, Philippine’s Ferdinand Marcos, Shah Pahlavi of Iran, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and of course our own Haileselassie. It is not that they continue to do it, what bothers me. It is when they told the whole world that they are doing it in the name of democracy and good governance! Now, that is sickening.