Pay Your Enemy, Big Time - USA and Pakistan.

Hating the United States—which funds Islamabad’s army and nuclear program to the humiliating tune of $3 billion a year—Pakistan takes its twisted, cowardly revenge by harboring the likes of the late Osama bin Laden. But the hypocrisy is mutual, and the shame should be shared.

So writes Christopher Hitchens in the July, 2010 edition of Vanity Fair 

One has to wonder, as Hitchens writes, why The USA continues to pay for mad, bad and downright evil states. In the case of Pakistan, one has to be completely amazed that the US fell for the myth of Bin Laden hiding out in the wilds of the Afghan and Pakistan border lands.

He was in Abbottabad along, and Pakistan knew from the word go.

Boss Robert and the End Game.

Image via WikipediaChristopher Hitchens, writing in Slate.com reviews my old school mate Peter Godwin's book 'The Fear'.

More about the seemingly endless last days of Robert Mugabe.

Written before the last election that resulted in a so-called 'power sharing' with Morgan Tsvangirai MDC, it updates '...the continuing story of popular resistance.'

Unfortunately all hope of a Zimbabwean 'Jasmine' revolution inspired by the current 'Arab Spring' revolts will not lead to any revolutionary winds of change but, as Hitchen's says:

 'One day, the civic resistance to this, which was often looked-down upon by people considering themselves revolutionary, will earn the esteem and recognition it deserves.'

One day Boss Robert will be blown away...one day.