There was a good post recently on Mugabe in the other half of this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=433767 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=433767

There was a good post recently on Mugabe in the other half of this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=433767 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=433767 Mugabe wasn't horrible, and that's what's sad about all of this -- the land reform was a populist grab that was initiated when he started losing his grasp on the country. He's shown over and again that he's willing to put his position above the interests of the country in the last few years, and that's what'll make him go down in history as a despot rather than a hero.