The Sharp Shooter: Go Bruce, and don’t come back!

15 Nov, 2015 - 00:11 0 Views

The Sunday Mail

Vukani Madoda

OUTGOING United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe Bruce Wharton is yet another failed diplomat who has sugar-coated the continuation of sanctions on Zimbabwe by America.

His departure from Harare is another classic case of good riddance to bad rubbish, just like his predecessors over the last 15 years.
One really wonders why the US is still wasting money maintaining a diplomatic mission in Zimbabwe and yet all they specialise in is perpetuating and presiding over the country’s economic demise through sanctions that have failed to bring about the regime change which the racist US government has dreamed about for a decade-and-a-half.
Bruce, like others before him, dismally failed in his mission because he believes President Mugabe and a Zanu-PF Government should not be in office.
In typical racist and condescending fashion Bruce has said there is nothing wrong with regime change in Zimbabwe.
“Regime change after every four years is a good thing,” Bruce told journalists in Harare last week. “We practise this after every four years and at least in my country; the idea that nobody stays in power for more than eight years is a good thing.”
Yes, that is correct, in your country Bruce. Not in my country.
Zimbabwe is only 35-years-old while the US is over 200-years-old, so you can never compare the two and expect them to be at par in respect of political perceptions.
Regime change is not a good thing for us Bruce. At least not now. We need our stability and we need to find our feet. We still need to entrench our sovereignty and identity even though your spiteful government continues to poke its long nose in our business without any shame.
And with indignity you have continued to uphold that diabolical law in your country called the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act which is the bedrock of your sanctions against us.
Today you want to tell us that regime change is a good thing because you want to impose it on us. Can you not see that your sanctions have failed to achieve the regime change? What is it going to take for you and your bully government to realise that Zimbabweans have faith in their leadership?
The US continues to maintain sanctions against Zimbabwe accusing President Mugabe of fictional electoral fraud and imaginary human rights abuses and yet we all know that what the US just wants is to put a teddy-bear leader in power so that they can control the country’s polices, politics and economy.
We are mindful of that racial agenda and we are mindful that our economic woes are a result of us refusing to play your old game of horse and rider.
Truth is nobody is going to miss you, Bruce, and you can tell that to your principal.
In fact be bold enough to advise your principal, that sell-out black boy called Barack Obama who upheld sanctions against us, that Zimbabwe will tread on without factoring in your nonsensical agenda.
We are a resilient people and most of us have learned the art of survival, so with or without a US diplomatic mission in Zimbabwe we will get there – but on our own terms and not on your regime change impositions.
Now that you have seen that your support for political parties and dour personalities such as Morgan Tsvangirai has come to nought, you now want to distance yourself and your government by saying you do not support political parties or personalities but you support processes.
Bruce, why don’t you just admit that it has been a major source of embarrassment for you to support Morgan because he has humiliated you with reckless abandon at every election and in-between every election with his open-zip theatrics.
Go Bruce, and never come back. We will not miss you and never think that we are in hurry to have you replaced by that blue-eyed principal of yours.
We will do just fine without you. We may stumble here and there but we will be alright.
Your country has messed up Iraq, it has messed up Libya and has messed up its own citizens but you always want to stand on moral high-ground to judge my country on trumped up charges of electoral fraud and human rights abuses which you crack your head to pin-point.
The 2013 election was one of the most peaceful the world has ever seen and the case of Itai Dzamara has become very dubious and suspicious and may lead us to think that you and your government may be involved because that is all you ever talk about.
Without Itai Dzamara, you have nothing.
The manner in which Bruce has shamelessly exposed the double-standards of his paymasters makes his regime change agenda degenerate into a flaccid and nerveless diatribe in which he buries his head in the sand by refusing to acknowledge the sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe for the last 15 years.
We are cognisant that those opposed to Zimbabwe’s emancipation will continue failing.
As the opposition disillusion continues with monotonous boycotting of elections, the pain and misery of a failed regime change agenda will begin to dawn on the US and its local and international acolytes.
The prospect of the admirable democracy that Zimbabwe is on course to attain continues to shake the very foundations of the West.
We have discovered over time that what our enemies fear most is a Zanu-PF Government led by Cde Mugabe, so we are going to keep it that way until their fear consumes them.
Dubulaizitha!

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