So Robert Mugabe is ready for “fresh and cooperative relations” with the West. Well that’s a breath of fresh air. The problem, of course, is that we’ve heard this song and dance before.
Here is the script to a movie we’ve all seen:
Act I:
Mugabe ruthlessly pillories and hectors and scathes and condemns the western powers.
Act II:
Mugabe makes a volte face and tosses off a few lines about playing nice.
Act III:
The west does something to get under Mugabe’s skin. (Perhaps this will qualify.)
Act IV:
We see the return of the blistering Mugabe shaking his fist at the “racists” and the “imperialists.”
fin.
