If Geldof & Co. really wanted to improve matters in Africa, they should use their haul from Live 8 to hire a first class hit man to whack Mugabe and his cronies.
p>Life in Zimbabwe would improve immediately. br> — William L. Roughton, Jr. br> Fairfax Station, Virginia /p> p> Mr. Tyrrell’s recent piece regarding the savages of Live 8 reminded me of televised news footage I witnessed. The unwashed mobs marching in support of the event, I noticed, also carried banners proclaiming “9-11 — An Inside Job.” I’m too familiar with anti-U.S. hate mongering by assorted sanctimonious Eurotrash to wonder how that related to Third World poverty. I wonder who today in central London would still carry that banner. br> — Mark K. Zunk
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