By Andrew L. Jaffee

What did Freud call it when criticism hits too close to home, and the neurotic person lashes out? Projection? Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe has a bad case of it. When faced with condemnation of his beating up opposition party members, he responded that Western critics can “go hang.” Very eloquent, and quite consistent with his previous behavior. He’s expropriated the homes of his own people, whom he calls “filth,” and has created quite a paradise in his homeland:

More than 80% of Zimbabweans are living in poverty, with chronic unemployment and inflation running at more than 1,700% - the highest in the world.