Thabo Mbeki
NYT Recites Litany of Excuses in Report on Mbeki and Mugabe
June 27th, 2008 4:30 PM
Robert Mugabe continues to take Zimbabwe into utter ruin. A former breadbasket when it was colonial Rhodesia, it is now a starving, rotting basket case. The latest development in the ongoing nightmare: A sham "runoff" election where Mugabe is the only candidate, thanks to "violence against .... opposition members," whose candidate dropped out of the race less than a week ago. For nearly a decade…