What, Meles Worry?

The IMF should be allowed to sell some of its gold reserves to cushion Africa from the global economic crisis, Africa will argue at next month's G20 summit. Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who will represent Africa, argues that it's a life and death situation to prevent destabilization and that countries like Ethiopia seek a much smaller stimulus package than Western banks clamor for in bailouts. Ethiopundit, an Ethiopian-American moderate-conservative blogger, ain't buying it: "For once though he is right. His thinking is clearly destabilized. But...it is also perfectly rational because the West has trained him to behave this way since 1991. You see dear reader in Meles World the absolute absence of property rights & a free market, the corrupt, murderous and incestuous beast represented by his personal business empire, party conglomerates, government monopolies, his oppressive police state, tribal militias, ethnic / religious / regional divide & rule, siphoning of billions in aid, and even his own numbered Swiss accounts don't matter a bit. What matters is getting ferenjis [translation: foreigners/whites] to pay up even more so he doesn't have to hurt the natives any more than he is already doing or to steal even more from them. Of course none of it is his fault."

More: "Know what? The ferenjis will pay up. Not the amounts he is talking about of course. That is just a negotiating position in the market of Ethiopian blood, sweat, and tears freely traded for dollars, euros, and yen. He will get enough to keep him happy. The fact that he is the main author of Ethiopian suffering doesn't matter. Meles will fly to the G-20 summit alternately shaking his head and giggling in amazement at the nonsense his penchant for violence and ferenji willing blindness let him get away with. The way to get out of the state of permanent crisis is for ferenjis to worry about Ethiopians more than their very own destabilizing Man in Africa."