On thin ice here, but..

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Originally Posted by Old Vantaa Man

Alex. Sorry good post there mate. I think you just summed it all up:

Ultimately, blaming others for one's problems is of little benefit.

Matt

It's the fact that the west continues to make it difficult for poor African nations by lending them money that they are unwilling to pay back and at the same time insisting that they follow economic policies that are no good for them that is fucked up at the moment.

As I said, if the West forgave all the debts owed and stopped interfering then you can say stop blaming the past and get on a fix things, but at the moment it makes it near impossible for things to be fixed.

Ever dollar that has to go to financing debt or buying weapons is a dollar less that can go to building schools.

South Africa on the other hand is completely to blame for its own problems, the Government there was handed a strong economy from under apartheid and seemed to be doing okay under Mandala but when he left corruption set in and ruined any chance they had.

Pretty much the same for Zimbabwe. The blame for that countries current woes can be put down to the Mugabe cunt. Someone should just assassinate him.