Saturday, April 16, 2011

Psycho-Analyzing Robert Mugabe

"Writing on all this some years ago, Peter Godwin opted for the view that Mugabe wasn't explicable by any change in circumstances or personality. He had had the heart and soul of a tyrant all along, and simply waited until he could give the tendency an unfettered expression. Even though I have a quasi-psychological theory of my own—that Mugabe became corroded by jealousy of the adulation heaped on Nelson Mandela —I now think that this is almost certainly right."

-Christopher Hitchens

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