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Subject: Re: ugnet_: [abujaNig] A CASE ON UGANDA UNDER NRM
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 11:25:02 EDT
Musaazi!
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.
>
>
>
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