Only the Herald is ridiculous enough to use the term Anglo-Saxon. The Angles and Saxon tribes existed 1000 years ago, what relevance is that to the UK or US today?

Visit the UK or US and you'll see that they are among the most ethnically diverse countries in the world.

TYPICAL RUBBISH HERALD PROPAGANDA

The headline, at least, is correct. It is, after all, impossible to teach any person who refuses to learn.

Ragtimer, The USA has already taught us how public relations management can help explain "flawed" election results in the USA. The USA under George Bush had flawed elections and very primitive methods of counting ballots. For a first world country and a boastful nation like the USA counting votes in Florida was like observing fools arguing with each other. NOT EVERYTHING FROM THE FIRST WORLD IS GOLD!

Ah....how about elections in Iraq and Afghanistan organised by the USA...a total mess!!!! The USA is not even in the top 15 countries that are considered to be the most democratic nations in the world. Ohhhh...by the way, how about the financial vadoo economics practised by US banks and businesses. It Makes Gono, look better!!

Africa needs to be more critical of the so-called first world countries. We need to evaluate who is really good before we adopt their criminal behaviours!!!

Typical rubbish from the Herald and their ZANU-Poof puppeteers....... but ironically, I sort of agree with the headline. As a U.S. citizen, I agree, I don't want the U.S. to teach Zimbabwe anything - I want Zimbabweans to discover for themselves that they have only themselves to blame for allowing ZANU-Poof/Mugabe to roll over their dignity these past 30 years. I want Zimbabweans to discover for themselves how ZANU-Poof/Mugabe has failed every measurable metric for improving the lives of the people they bleat they serve.

Instead, Zimbabwe is forced to abandon the sovereign currency due to economic chaos. Instead, Zimbabwe is forced to mourn the loss of over 4,000 Zimbabweans because ZANU-Poof/Mugabe could not provide clean and pure water to drink for their people. Instead, Zimbabwe is forced to contend with understaffed and underequipped hospitals and schools because their "Leaders" have siphoned off too much Kapital in order for them to do their shopping in Malaysia and Hong Kong. Instead, Zimbabwe is forced to deal with criminal life-expectency rates.

The common thread in ALL that is wrong in Zimbabwe today? ZANU-Poof/Mugabe as evidenced by this "opinion" in the Herald! "Don't look at OUR failures........" "Look at the failures of others"....... who happen to be outside of Zimbabwe and have no bearing on how things are done (or not done) in Zimbabwe........

Sadly, Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans, but the Herald and their ZANU-Poof puppeteers continue to ask people not to observe their own failures in providing for the people of Zimbabwe, but to look outside Zimbabwe at other's people's failures that have NOTHING to do with Zimbabwe and are ill-equipped to do anything to improve the situation in Zimbabwe.

Keep your eye on the ball - Zimbabwe (and those who allegedly serve the people of Zimbabwe) should be focused on what needs to be done to improve the condition of the people of Zimbabwe - NOT to point fingers at others who have nothing to do with how Zimbabwe suffers.

If the "Imperialist West" won't end their sanctions, then ask yourself why. If the Chinese won't invest the $8 Billion needed in Zimbabwe, ask yourself why (they've obviously got the money). If no one wants to invest in Zimbabwe, ask yourself why. Point is, no one wants to do business with Mugabe and suffer the same "taint" Nestle suffered recently by their dealings with the First Shopper. No one is coming to the rescue of Zimbabwe so long as Bloodstained Bob and his henchmen are still feeding at the public trough!

It doesn't really mattter what happens in Afganistan because those people are in no position to help the people of Zimbabwe! It really doesn't matter if MDC-T screams to all the western nations to end their sanctions either to satisfy ZANU-Poof's illogical demands, because not even MDC-T can end the so-called "sanctions". When the rule of law is observed, when the police and military are de-politicized and subservient to civilian control, when there is a free press and right of free association, THEN the "sanctions" will end - but NOT until then. The "Imperial West" is looking to the "facts on the ground" in Zimbabwe and those "facts" tell the rest of us in the real world that ZANU-Poof/Mugabe have not changed and they have used the excuse of a GNU as breathing room to prepare themselves for the next wave of terror they plan on unleashing onto the peole of Zimbabwe.

It's ironic, there is NEVER anything that ZANU-Poof/Mugabe has done wrong according to the Herald, EVER! ZANU-Poof/Mugabe have NEVER failed at anything according to them. But ask yourself why the Herald continues to point to external events to draw attention away from the obvious failures of ZANU-Poof/Mugabe ad nauseum, yet never seem to change themselves?

ZANU-Poof/Mugabe need to look inward for the causes of the economic devastation that is present-day Zimbabwe, NOT outward. Or have they forgotten that they are "Totally Empowered!"?

The West is indeed very hypocritical. But of course it is a well known fact from Opinion polls that Mugabe's 44% in March 2008 was in fact a 20% or even a 10%.

The only solution to bring power to the people is to implement fraud-proof voting systems globally. That will also eliminate intimidation and torture of the electorate.

Fraud-proof voting systems mean that pro-western stooges are eliminated, as are unpopular dictator presidents who have date-expired.

Power to the People!

Mr Alex Weir, Harare and Baghdad

Hey alex, your fraud-proof voting systems would never work in Zimbabwe because those "unpopular dictator presidents with date expired," would see to it that the people are told at gun point well in advance whom to shove into those systems - the very date- expired unpopular dictators. Your "power," was it to the people or the Herald?

Krjs12o, Perfect ballot boxes detering fraud would not work in America either. I lived in the USA and I saw the corruption that parrals most of Africa. In the USA votes are also thrown away!

Also, the voting population in any given elections in the USA is only 45 - 56% and yet there is so much boastfulness!!

That level of participation in Africa is viewed as a "flop" There is much higher participation in elections in Africa than in the western world.

Please, do not brings us your stupid voting participation. You may live in the so-called first world, but there is a lot of rubbish that goes on! With over 2 million people in Prison in the USA, how can you call that a civilized country!! You are free to critize African madness!!! Oh boy....Please do not forget some of your own lunatics!!!!

Phiri America is "civilized" because criminals are imprisoned and are where they are supposed to go if they commit a crime. How many of your Zanu-Pf criminals are there for a small country such as yours that are free to roam lawlessly murdering and doing whatever they please on innocent people? I can guarantee you that that element of lawlessness that exists in Zimbabwe would not be tolerated in America and the whole lot would be behind bars including your leader murderous Mugabe.

Well said and researched --When will the rest of the world see how the anglo-saxon and european is duping the world for its resources and slave labor?? Thanks for your article.