UN should act like this all of the time

The end game is near for Gaddafi's West African friend Gbagbo.  Only in Africa would such a person negotiate.


There was an election in Cote d'Ivoire and the results were very clear. Maybe I'm being simple but if there's an election and one person got 54% of the vote while the other got 46%, then the candidate with 54% has won, and should take office, and that's all there is to it.


But in Africa where anything goes, l'enfant terrible Laurent decided to sit it out and invoke ethnic deities (the last refuge of the sub saharan African scoundrel). Stupidly, some chose to support him due to ethnic chauvinism and religious bigotry and started fighting.

As usual in Africa, the most innocent - women and children - always suffer.

So now with many thousands dead, Gbagbo is trapped in a basement asking for a ceasefire. I say, attach a garden hose to a tap, stick it through an opening in the basement and turn the tap on. As a rat in the basement Gbagbo should be drowned to save Africa one more parasite.

I really hope after this nasty episode, no other African leader would sit tight after elections they've lost. I hope these useless misrulers in Africa would allow the long suffering people of the continent to develop and grow.

Meanwhile, well done to the UN for acting firmly and fairly. I really wish they'd act like this in all circumstances and give the American & European cockroaches less chance to spread chaos in Africa for their own selfish and imperialistic ends.