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Zimbabwean leader's reality: Mugabe is Right 

Mugabe fought to liberate a nation of oppressed Africans from a brutal and racist white rule and then built it into a much-hailed economic and social success. What would drive him to preside over its decline and ruin?

Under Mugabe, Zimbabwe fed itself and became a major exporter of food as well as of tobacco and minerals. Literacy and longevity rates shot up. Today, a third of the population is starving and the country has the lowest life expectancy in the world _ just 34 years for women. . . .

Heidi Holland, who recounts the anecdote about God's chosen one in her recently published book "Dinner with Mugabe," says Zimbabwe's leader is an "emotionally weak man" who's never come to terms with some of life's earlier disappointments.

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