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Published by the government of Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe: MDC-T Stalling to Open Door for West

Reason Wafawarova

14 November 2008

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opinion

Sydney, Australia — THE posturing by MDC-T and the complementary portentous utterances made by the party's leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, after the party achieved their goal of wasting Sadc's time in their envisaged exodus to the United Nations Security Council was most revealing.

MDC-T's propaganda project requires that we all shake our heads in dismay over the foolishness and incompetence of Zanu-PF.

The world must look in disbelief and in aweful amazement at a situation where "a party that won an election has compromised its victory by agreeing to share power with a party that lost".

The winning party, in this case, is a party with a combined Lower House and Upper House total seat tally of 124 (100 in the Lower and 24 in the Upper House).

The losing party here is a party with a combined House tally of 129 seats (99 in the Lower House and 30 seats in Senate).

This writer warned last week that there was no point pursuing talks with MDC if the hope was to get the so-called deal working.

The deal might be in the interests of suffering Zimbabweans and perhaps every progressive thinking citizen, including some in both Zanu-PF and the combined opposition.

But most certainly the agreement is from any number of angles not in the interest of Tsvangirai and his Western handlers; not in the least.

The policies of the planners in Washington and London, for whom George W Bush and Gordon Brown act as figureheads, are clearly not adaptable and impossible to accommodate in the context of the agreement that Tsvangirai signed for the purpose of diverting the attention of both Zanu-PF and Government on September 15.

Effectively, Tsvangirai has managed to derail Government projects by no less than six months.

Above all, he has tried to raise people's hopes by dangling what is supposed to be seen as salvation and then withdrawing it in a strategy meant to create a messiah character out of Tsvangirai's person and institute total rebellion against Zanu-PF and President Mugabe.

Now the messianic character is supposed to be backed by militia goons that are supposed to imitate liberation fighters to the extent of copying the lexicon and lingo of our liberation war legacy.

In this scheme of things, an outright traitor who mobilised sanctions against his own motherland is supposed to be portrayed as a liberator of the same people whose suffering he created with so much arrogance and an unparalleled heartlessness.

In the same vein, a foreign-sponsored team of militia goons is meant to be portrayed as a liberation army of freedom fighters driven by the passion to "free the country".

The Contras of Nicaragua, Unita of Angola and the Mujahedeen of Afghanistan were all proclaimed "freedom fighters" by the Ronald Reagan regime.

The players may change from time to time, but the script is always the same.

The foreign policies of London and Washington are simply adaptations of traditional practice and they are always tuned to adapt to current principles.

When the Reaganites took control of America, true democracy was beginning to take root in Central America with meaningful participation of the masses just like was the case with Zimbabwe's agrarian reforms in 2000.

This form of democracy is an unwanted threat to the US interests and has to be overcome.

Reagan converted Honduras into a US military base the way George W Bush has converted Botswana into a US military base.

The US also converted El Salvador and Guatemala into rear bases for the Contra terrorists that were ravaging Nicaragua on behalf of Washington.

This set-up is what that novice general by the name of Ian Khama has accepted and ratified as his country's role in exporting American "democracy" to neighbouring Zimbabwe.

Morgan Tsvangirai was instructed to pretend to play ball with Sadc while Botswana did all the preparatory dirty work of subverting Zimbabwe into bloodshed.

He did a perfect job of it, signing a document he knew so well would never ever bind him, pretending to be interested in running a government alongside Zanu-PF when he knew his masters would never have any of that and even vainly declaring that "we respect African institutions".

In short, Tsvangirai fooled Sadc, Zanu-PF and the AU and he takes this abuse of trust as political triumph.

Like Nicaragua in the 80s, Zimbabwe stands accused of "departing from the mode" of subordination to US power.

The bloodshed and torture by the Contras of Nicaragua were successfully removed from the eyes of Western citizens -- a remarkable achievement by Western media, and the costs at home were limited for Reagan.

Equally, the militias that are allegedly meant to attack Zimbabwe anytime now are not going to march with banners reading "Proudly Sponsored by Our Masters in Washington!"

That would be suicidal.

To the Western communities, these will be portrayed as freedom fighters and pro-democracy cadres.

This is not an unimpressive scheme and strategy in the annals of international terrorism as led by Washington and its lapdog supporter, London.

This is a continuation of the Reagan Doctrine, a doctrine that has proven to be based on considerable sophistication, driven by an impressive global vision supported by the imperial elite consensus.

In 1986, Reagan constructed through his planners this sophisticated terror network that attacked Nicaragua through crafty covert operations that one can only admire in awe.

Reagan also sponsored Saddam Hussein to escalate the unjustified war with Iran at the same time he was ruthlessly destroying Nicaragua.

Both Nicaragua and Iran were ruled by the US until 1979 -- that through US client regimes that were brutal, barbarous, corrupt, murderous and torturous -- both regimes placed in power by US violence (the Shah by a CIA coup in 1953 and the Somoza dynasty by the US marine intervention of the late 1920s.)

Both client regimes were kept in power by America, with much aid from Israel.

During this time both Nicaragua and Iran played an important role in US strategic planning and the loss of these client states in 1979 was treated as a serious matter in the Pentagon.

It is like the loss of economic control of the land resource of Zimbabwe by Britain in 2000.

This was a serious matter for London and Washington and it is still a very serious matter up to now.

Zimbabwe was posting profits for British companies and for white commercial farmers occupying 75 percent of the country's arable land.

Nicaragua under the Somozas was the major base for US subversion and terror in Latin America.

Iran under the Shah was part of the tripartite alliance constructed by the US in the 1970s as part of the Nixon Doctrine.

The other members were Israel and Saudi Arabia.

The Nixon Doctrine recognised that the United States no longer had the capacity to carry out military intervention everywhere and had to, therefore, rely on surrogate states.

Nixon's Defence Secretary, Melvin Laird, explained the doctrine saying: "America will no longer play policeman to the world. Instead we will expect other nations to provide more cops on the beat in their own neighbourhood."

Understandably, the police headquarters remains in Washington.

This is the doctrine that Ian Khama has vowed to worship, together with the imperial gods that have created a diamond empire out of his native Kalahari Desert.

This is the doctrine that will convert MDC-T from a mere bunch of donor-mongering traitors to a monstrous diabolical militia bent on bringing Zimbabwe to a crunching halt.

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