THE decision by President Robert Mugabe and his advisors to expel the Libyan ambassador to Harare and all embassy staff because of their support for the rebels-led National Transitional Council (NTC), which recently ousted vile dictator Muammar Gaddafi, clearly showed our foreign policy is vastly out of touch with reality.
The move to banish Libyan diplomats for backing the NTC was not just delusional, but also unnecessarily put Zimbabwe on a diplomatic collision course with those now in charge in Tripoli.
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