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The discrete charm of Robert Mugabe
Tue, 07/07/2009 - 9:18am

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe labeled US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson an "idiot" following the first meeting between the president an a US official in many years. The two statesmen were introduced during the recent African Union meeting in Libya, after which President Mugabe told Zimbabwean paper The Herald:
You would not speak to an idiot of that nature. I was very angry with him, and he thinks he could dictate to us what to do and what not to do. We have the whole of [the South African Development Community] working with us, and you have the likes of little fellows like Carson, you see, wanting to say: 'You do this, you do that.' Who is he? I hope he was not speaking for Obama.
Mugabe's appraisals of US envoys in the past is little better, calling Carson's predecessor Jendayi Frazer:
A little American girl trotting around the globe like a prostitute.
AFP/Getty images
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