Jimmy Carter's ambassador to the United Nations, Andrew Young once remarked that "the only thing that frustrates me about Robert Mugabe is that he is so damned incorruptible." After his election as president of the newly independent nation of Zimbabwe in 1980, Jimmy Carter hosted a reception for Mugabe at the White House. To Carter, Young and their fellow liberals the Marxist ex-guerrilla represented the sort of leader that they believed would bring a new era of hope and change to the downtrodden people of Zimbabwe.For many years the famine plagued children in southeastern Zimbabwe used the small, hard stones common to the region in their home-made slings and catapults to hunt birds for food. When it was learned that the stones were actually diamonds, the rush was on. People from all walks of life were drawn to the remote fields of Marange hoping to escape the crippling poverty and starvation that has gripped their country since Robert Mugabe came to power. Buried in the...(Read Full Post)