How do they think?

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said on Sunday that he would be willing to hand power to a ruling party. But, and that is a big but, only when the country was safe from sellouts and British interference.

But the state-run Sunday Mail newspaper said he gave no time-frame and again vowed to stop the opposition from ending his rule, which Britain's foreign secretary David Miliband described on BBC television as sadism.

Whenever I ready statements like this from dictators and other tyrants I wonder what they are thinking. How can you go on thinking that what you say and do is the right thing regardless of what the rest of worlds says? How can anyone be so evil (or is it selfish) to just think about you and your own power? After the cyclone in Burma the junta in some statement said they didn't need any help since they could do it themselves. The same went for Kim Jong-il in North Korea when the people was starving. No, nobody is starving and if so we can help ourselves.

I remember when seeing The last King of Scotland a while back that I was very fascinated by how Idi Amin got more and more paranoid as time went on, Is that what goes on with Mugabe or any of the tyrants left in the world? Is it all in their head and are they actually ill?I want to believe that, but it's too easy. The other reason is probably that the taste of power is sweet and the more you have the more you want. The human being is so easily fooled.