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Must… keep… smiling… even though a batshit crazy racist murdering dictator is sitting right behind me.
DIPLOMACY
(Queen Elizabeth II and Robert Mugabe)
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Big deal, he was Britain’s biggest hope for Africa.
And she knighted him in 1994. Knighthood revoked in 2006 or so.
So the question is, was he sane once but has been driven barking, howling mad by the power he holds, or has he been totally psychotic from the beginning, but, since the UK’s record in Africa is as bad as most colonial powers, they found it “convenient” to overlook the fact that there has been a unique psychiatric diagnosis created just for this murdering wacko? In any event, by 1994 Her Majesty Inc. must have been the last people to hear that this lad is the only person on the planet that makes Kim Jung Il look sane.
He was sane once, and has indeed been driven mad by power — power that unfortunately is unchecked in places with only a short history of democratic institutions.
Britain was probably the best-behaved of the colonial powers in Africa. That isn’t saying much, but credit should be given where it’s due. The British left Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, Rhodesia and South Africa comparatively quietly, while the French fought a very bloody war in Algeria for years and years.
Nothing compares to the Belgian Congo, however. It was a private fiefdom of the king of Belgium, beyond any parliamentary control, and brutal beyond belief.
Absolutely true on all counts. Next to Pol Pot, King Leopold is the person I most hope is burning in Hell. Sponsoring the first huge genocide of the 20th century has earned him a place in the bottom rung and Belgium as a nation seemed incapable of learning from their mistakes.
Sorry, but when was he ever sane? You must have him confused with someone else. He started killing people (oppostition party members) from day 1.
Samzimm I live in nearby Zambia and we visited Zimbabwe often when I was younger. I used to love it!I say he really snapped around 1999. So he was sorta sane for the first 19 years of his reign….
I grew up in Zimbabwe – when I was a kid the general concensus was that he had a bad case of cerebral siphylis
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“Loser” is a derogatory term for a person who is (according to the standards of the observer) in general unsuccessful.
Screw diplomacy, your Majesty! Turn around and smash him in the teeth!
Take a lesson from Cousin Juan Carlos and Hugo Chavez. A monarch, even a modern constitutional monarch, can sometimes get away with something a president or prime minister cannot.
Well, hindsight is almost always 20/20, after all.
See: Hussein, Saddam and a whole sh*tload of others…
Supporting those killers was not a “mistake” later discovered in hindsight. They were once convenient, so their less desirable qualities, mass murder, torture of opponents, bad table manners etc., were overlooked. When they were no longer useful, the Great Powers carried on as if the horrors they had helped perpetrate had popped out at them from a jack-in-the-box and oh my, weren’t they shocked! Just shocked! at the way they had been mislead. Which is worse, the terrorists that run governments or the hypocrites that prop them up as long as they’re useful?
Exactly! For those of us who remember Saddam as USA’s lil buddy during the 80′s when he was at was with Iran! Picture of him and Rummy shaking hands in the National Archives!
War, was at war! My typing skills are abysmal!
In war the ends justify the means, as long as you clean up your mess afterwards.
So he murders batshit crazy racists?
That doesn’t seem so bad.
It’s funny how a little punctuation can change the context of a sentence.
Yah, they really need some commas up there…
i see the word ‘batshit’ used TOO much
There’s a lot of it.
I gather that bat guano is…memorable. And voluminous.
Takes one to know one
*puts on the Hat of Sarcasm*
Ah yes. Everyone knows the Queen and all of her mighty legislative power have been killing critics all so she can stay in the role of complete supremacy when it comes to policy making. Nice catch. Well played, sir or madam.
*passes Hat of Sarcasm on to someone else*
lol, you didn’t know? She also eats babies and hazes the other royals by making them carry a frozen grape in their buttcheeks from one end of Buckingham Palace to the other only to be met with a firm paddling when they reach their destination. Geeze, read a paper.
Perhaps I should go back in time and post this comment on a portrait of an English Monarch a few centuries ago. I was not clear in conveying my point that my comment was more towards the history of the Monarchy rather than the current figurehead. I apologize
“Perhaps I should go back in time and post this comment on a portrait of an English Monarch a few centuries ago”
Yes, you should.
Wouldn’t have to go nearly that far. Just until about the time when the US started assuming the Imperialist role.
That’s 1898 at the earliest. Well before that you’d have to direct your ire at British Prime Ministers much moreso than British monarchs. The last of the really important Kings/Queens was (*leap of interpretation*) William the 3rd, 300 years ago.
I almost did, but I put my time machine away thinking about the consequences of turning up out of thin air in front of a bunch of Medevil Screw-heads. I don’t want to be tried as a witch and weighed against a duck with a carrot tied to my face.
Burrrn the witch!
sorry i started the batshit crazy and he is, go on your smack him one
Philip is behind her!?
Ahahahaha!!!
“Don’t stay here too long or you’ll get all squinty-eyed.” – Prince Philip to a group of British students during his visit to Hong Kong (something along those lines)
Slitty-eyed, is what I believe the batty old dear said
Yes, you’re right. Thanks.
I think that due to his age and his insulated-from-social-change lifestyle, we can give Phillip a pass for some of the things he says. When he was a young man they would have been considered clever. Had Charles or Andrew or Edward–much less William or Harry–said such a thing, that would be another matter entirely.
Yes, but it doesn’t make it any less funny. Well, funny in the horrifying, uncomfortable way.
They have, plenty.
None of these are excuses for being a flat-out hater. Reasons maybe, but not excuses.
Weird. The first thing that popped into my mind was, Seating Chart FAIL.
Riiiihiiiight. Because the British Monarchy has an excellent history.
Classic Imperialism and colonialism didn’t end very long ago (then the US took over as neo-Imperialist, subjugator, and mass murderer), and it left a HUGE legacy that still frames and informs current structures.
It’s popular in certain circles to compare modern American foreign policy with that of classic European imperialism, but the parallel is not even remotely exact. True American imperialism occurred in the Philippines, Hawaii and the Caribbean, and was largely done and dusted by the 1930s. FDR’s price for assistance to Britain in the Second World War was the breakup of the British Empire — FDR recognized that self-determination was the way of the future, and the Nazis had demonstrated the evil of imperialism once and for all. And America bullied Britain into backing off its intervention in the Suez Crisis, effectively putting the nail in the Empire’s coffin.
The clearest demonstration that postwar American policy was not imperialistic or colonialistic is that money flowed OUT of America and INTO the places that it was supporting in the Cold War. Real empires ravage their colonies, they don’t pay them taxpayers’ cash.
Your anti-Americanism is familiar to me, but it needs to be better-informed.
I just read historian Barbara Tuchman’s take on the social environment and mind set in the period from 1890 to the Great War. She said exactly what you did about the beginning of American Imperialism. She also pointed out that it was America’s fundamental misunderstanding of the colonialist mindset that got us sucked into “French Indo-China” in the first place.
As for the geopolitical chess game that ruled the world for 50 years or so, we paid our attack dogs to die in our stead exactly the way the USSR paid theirs. We depended on Israel et al. and the USSR used Cuba. We did pay them; we bought their lives.
Riiiggghhhhttt. It’s called a sense of humor. You should look in to getting one. They’re a lot of fun.
NR forgot Communism, which wins ever over Nazi Germany for “biggest mass kills.”
Wonder why the US-bashers always forget that?
Oh, yeah. They were on that side during the wars. Communist Imperialists.
Communism can’t have won at anything. It is, thus far, a utopian socio-political/economic theory/idea. It has never existed on a mass scale (larger than farming communes). If you mean Soviet Socialism and Moaist China than that’s a different story.
Right, those guys calling themselves Communists weren’t “real” Communists. Just like the Inquisitioners and other people who burned witches weren’t “real” Christians, and those guys who sent people to Dachau weren’t “real” Germans.
Pull the other one, it’s got bells on.
I’m a republican. :p
Bah. That didn’t come out as obvious in a post as it did in my head.
Words mean very different things to different people. As per one definition of communism, there have been no communist countries. As per another definition, there have and are.
(Much like calling your nation “the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” and then being … antyhing but.)
I remember being hugely confused as a kid when I learned that it was the German DEMOCRATIC Republic that was behind the Iron Curtain and therefore a Communist country. No wonder I was useless at Geography. . .
They were State Capitalists. The difference is that, in a true Communist society, the people own everything in common, whereas in State Capitalism the state owns everthing.
wow, 30 posts and not one lame
“Where? I don’t see Bush in this picture?” joke. I’m impressed
Don’t be silly. Bush wasn’t any of those things listed in the caption; Cheney was.
The pic was taken outside of the US, and not in the presence of 50 squillion US troops so of course shrub wasn’t there!
Duhh!
and of course HM the Q is cool with sitting in front of a batshit crazy racist, hell she’s been married to one for over 1/2 a century.
Those glasses make him sort of look like a slightly older Urkel… *waits for “that’s racist” comments*
In those glasses, he looks like a black version of my grandpaw… who coincidentally was also a batshit crazy racist. But not a murderer, to my knowledge.
She looks like such a dear little woman with that hat….
I think he’s laughing at her hat.
Big green blob of sneeze on hat in…
1 – 2 – 3…
I still think she should take a cue from Cousin Juan Carlos’ book.
(At a conference of leaders of Spanish-speaking countries he told Hugo Chavez to sit down and shut up; a monarch, even a modern constitutional monarch with little real power, can sometimes accomplish things that a politician cannot.)
She wakes up next to one too
Now there’s a racist thought xD
hahahhahahaha black ass