Bush opposes Africa debt plan
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Forgiving someone like Robert Mugabe is good?
Nations with particular histories in Africa need to revise their priorities and play a more aggressive role in ousting dictators. French policy is in particular need of a radical shake-up, but Britain, Portugal, Belgium, Germany, Spain, the United States and others also have special histories and responsibilities.
Perhaps most fundamental is for non-African nations and Africans themselves to begin to believe, as any other people, that Africans have as much right to democracy and the reasons and capacity for it. There is a terribly enervating condescension among many non-Africans with a view that we must treat Africa as a sort of child, a patient, a charity case.
The result is toleration of dictators, a focus not on the cause but on the effect -- not on getting the right governance but on debt forgiveness, refugee relief or conflict prevention.