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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CohenLenstra" data-source="post: 30763299" data-attributes="member: 585805">This is a very classical African coup led dictator rhetoric. Mugabe (Zimbabwe), Mobutu Sese (Congo), Siad Barre (Somalia) etc are few of many such dictators who came to power with rhetoric against colonialism.The facts are unarguably true, they use these to build and maintain there personality cult. Good or bad when people starts experiencing incumbancy fatigue and the leader fails to live upto their own rhetoric, agitations arise. Dictators naturally react through violence. From that point it will be utter chaos until the guy is deposed - that could be anywhere between a few days to half a century.Rhetoric and progressive development do not go together, especially when it is infested with authoritarianism. It's true that we third worlders had been colonized and exploited by western powers, but that too was due to our naiveness and immaturity - research how Thailand braved western colonialism and used it for their good. The Thai monarchy and the government was strategic enough to negotiate with the westerners without ceding to them. Then after independence, we not being able to progress and left vulnerable to exploitation is our own doing, not the imperialists.</blockquote>

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