Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:56:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Mervyn Lobo <[email protected]>
Lastly, I sincerely hope our man in Ohio is not related. Else we will get endless email on how the liberation of Mozambique, by military force, produced democracy for the country. Mario responds: When I talk about being the only voice of reason, truth and peace on Goanet, watchful of the clueless, the factless and the illogical, and Christians with delusions of caste, the snide comment above about the use of military force is what I am talking about, referring clearly to me but scared to say so, which no one else will take issue with, either because they don't care or are equally clueless. In one instance, the Portuguese used military force to forcibly colonize a relatively weak Mozambique for economic and geopolitical benefit, annexing an entire region and subjugating the population against their will. In the other case, the Americans used military force in the context of a post 9/11 world to vanquish a brutal and powerful tyrant, Saddam Hussein, who was oppressing millions, menacing his neighbors and defying the world, and thereby liberated an entire country from oppression and a region from turmoil. This is not just my opinion, but of millions of Iraqis who have voted again and again expressing their desire for a multi-party and multi-ethnic democracy. Just this week the Iraqi Prime Minister cautioned the new and naive American President against pulling American troops out too early before Iraq was ready to protect itself and its nascent democracy. The Portuguese and their surrogates when they were colonizing Mozambique operated very much like the tyrant Hussein. Shouldn't someone who grew up in Africa know this?
