Your "humble opinion"is more of a nonsensical Mambo Jumbo, so to say.
When you conclude that quote "Yoweri Museveni is the best leader Uganda has had, I automatically dismiss you as somebody devoid of critical analytical reasoning period. Your becomes nothing short of a calculated propaganda ploy to promote the NRM killer regime in Kampala.
Sorry!
Matek
In a message dated 7/27/2003 11:09:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Once upon a time i used to be a fan of Euro-American bashing when it came to
African social-economic and political debates but slowly i've grown bored,
disinterested and less convinced by such retoric particularly many years
after most African countries have become independen and the article below
shows why....the writer is aluding to the Euro-American conspiracy to
recolonize Africa for their own good...so what....what's new....we all know
that and have known it from the begining of time...for your information that
is what good governments are supposed to do; have and pursue policies that
are in the interest of their poeple...if i was an American President or
British Prime minister i'd do exactly the same.....but that is by the
way....what really irks me about these arguments is there not having
practical pragmatic solution or fix to the problems they
highlight.....President Museveni himself has gone from being a PAN African
socialist to a capitalist and now he is at the verge of being a
multiparyist...his come full circle and guess who is making it possible...it
is not so much Ugandans as it is the donor nations 'cos they hold the ace of
spade "the money". This is not to take anything away from President
Museveni, in my opinion he is the most effective President Uganda has ever
had...he is doing the best he can with what he has (and he has done an
excellent job) it's very easy for us all to be abroad and criticize but
trust me running Uganda is not a piece of cake particularly with people like
Kony messing up....anyway....to me these changes over time are good 'cos it
shows a pragmatic leader....this is similar to the changes former President
Mandela had to also undergo in order to bring about freedom for his
people....changing with the political times is better than sinking with the
political times. So the Euro-American "blood suckers" are actually being of
more help than we would like to admit, they are actually helping at least in
these times to moderate our leaders but of course they have to do this in
their own interest which makes sense so the African continent is
inadvertently benefiting from this conicidental need of the Europeans and
this appears to be working for both sides 'cos they are willing partners
(talk about devine intervention)....therefore to me what works for Africa is
not being exclusively Afrocentric ('cos that goes against the present
political climent of globalization which by the way is a trend that will
never go away 'cos it's being pushed by technology and economics which
basically have a life of their own) and not being exclusively Eurocentric
the answer lies somewhere in the middle and stricly because of that you will
not find all policies made by our leaders being user friendly to our people
i don't care what anyone says....and finally these Euro-American bashers are
always the first to accuse Europe and America of not helping out or not
giving enough cash when internally generated crisis occur...you hear them
begging for American intervention, European intervention, basically begging
the 'culprits' to bail them out...you rarely hear these poeple insist on
African peace keeping forces in African trouble spots....and of course they
tend to be very selective in their criticism of African leaders, they don't
seem to have a single yard stick for criticking.....they seem to want to eat
their cake and have it at the same time. Just my humble opinion.
