Concept Garage

It is said certainly not without any justification, that the US and European governments prefer stability over any uncertain experiments with democracy. Here in the US it’s purported that it’s too early for a democratic transition in Ethiopia and that Ethiopians are not yet able to know what is right for them. This response of course is internalized in the whole western political establishment as a kind of knee jerk reaction. Western politicians are so obsessed with control and stability that they are willing to allot any dictator any ‘African country’ like Ethiopia so long as they believe they can use this dictator as a proxy to do their dirty laundry, an incredibly dumb political formula that has constantly failed the US in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere around the world, where the US foreign policy had disastrous implications even for the US.

It is the very blockade and repression of democratic expression that promotes instability and complete collapse of the societal system, most often irreversibly. Western foreign policy is indeed mired with confusion and for the most part one of the most significant causes for Ethiopia’s problems.

We have all witnessed how almost all so called freedom resistance movements crown an Unrelenting Machiavellian as their guardian who immediately morphs in to uncontrollable psychotic monster as soon as he assumes power. Most of these freedom movements also coalesce to become ideological “mind camps” ready to destroy reason in self defense, from being exposed of their underlying destructive internal fallacies and inconsistencies. The survival of these feeble mind camps necessitates repression of civilized freedom of thought and all other manifestation of reason, both internally with in party platforms and thorough out the nation; and this is how such an offshoot, EPRDF ethnic mind camp, is trying to protect itself. Ironically though, the west is willing to superficially bandage its recurrent economic and political collapse via government aid packages, training programs and through various NGOs doing “grocery delivery” to the helpless and the needy, People who were made weak and helpless by being denied democratic expression, the very freedom and an institutional framework enabling them to control their destiny.

Its clear that a lot needs to be done in convincing the west that its in their best interest to promote democracy in ethiopia and else where around the world!