Mugabe and Meles

We have given too much room to mischief-makers and shameless stooges of the West.

Those are the words of Mugabe, Zimbabwe's dictator. Bar the charge of a**-kissing the west, the concept seems radically similar to Meles's "we tied them with long ropes" theory. And given what happened during election nights in both countries, you wonder whether both are reading from the same books on strategy and tactics of suppression.