US claims to have one of the most mature and advanced democracies… but for some reason, the american people felt cheated by Bush’s unilateral actions.

Am not even gonna go into human rights issues… but ask yourself, why doesn’t the USA agree to subject itself to the ICC/Hague (something they prescribe to other countries)?

Why does the US/UK quietly support some obvious dictatorships… and condemn others who may not even fit the definition of dictators?

US has freedom of information & speech, yet americans so ignorant about the rest of the world… is this by accident or by design? Remember, people argue that “what you don’t know doesn’t hurt you” / “Ignorance is bliss”. Aren’t these principles of ignorance being used to hoodwink US citizens to think they live in Paradise and everywhere else is hell?

Just pointing out glaring inconsistencies. I have nothing against them…

Point: “Democracy” and “Freedom”. Two powerful words whose interpretation is a matter of convenience and perception. Leaders, globally, can and do change perceptions for their convenience.

On his question, its possible as long as you are able to find more inventive ways of producing food…

Its not about winning but about sharing ideas. I am always open to honest debate.

Secondly, you wrote:
“many Kenyans are just not regular readers and so if you talk about something and they don’t even have a basic understanding of the subject.”

And this amazing conclusion about an entire nation was arrived at based on your assumption of how people read your blog post?

…and how many different people contribute to your blog – maybe 20 at the most?

Assuming 20 (optimistic), your conclusions would be based on a sample of “0.00005555555555555560″. Barely representative of 36M population.

You assume all your readers are Kenyans

No control experiment to validate your conclusions.

Lets not be hasty in judging. Jesus said: You look at the speck in your brother’s eyes – and forget about the LOG in your own eyes. (or something to that effect).

In some ways, I’m also beginning to believe that many Kenyans are just not regular readers and so if you talk about something and they don’t even have a basic understanding of the subject matter, you may be forced to explain things over again, but the second time around, include the basic information which you assumed they had, but which they didn’t have.

I think I’m going to do a piece about reading or the lack of a reading culture amongst Kenyans.

Annon #2:
I think you are the one who got it somewhat jumbled up. Museveni’s entire political premise rests on the notion that democracy cannot work in pre-industrial societies. So, the first goal for African countries (he believes) is to move the economies out of the pre-industrial age and then, once there is a sizable, middle class that is literate, you can introduce democracy.

Lord:
Thank you for getting the point.

Maishanki:
Okay. You win.

**I keep telling people that some comments end up in the pending file if you insert more than one link in them or if you use an IP address, which may get flagged. So, if you don’t see your comment appearing immediately, just be patient because I have to go in and actually move them out of the pending folder.

Museveni actually wanted to know whether Polarization is better handled when groups are separate – or when groups are within a coalition. He was alluding to the lack of understanding aand copy/paste solutions imposed by the west on Africa.

His second question was in response to commonwealth’s “sustainable development” catch phrase. Can someone have sustainable pregnancy? Essentially telling them to bugger off with their half baked theories.

These are words of great wisdom from Museveni. It’s a pity that KE got it all jumbled up – thereby inciting Maishinski.

Cheers!