At first, I thought their headline "Mugabe's remarkable comeback" was an Onion story. In fact, it was a BBC story that somehow managed to write about Mugabe's brutal suppression of democracy with a sense of awe.
It has been done with great brutality, but Robert Mugabe has achieved an extraordinary turnaround here.This reminds me--true story--of a trip some American executives took to Japan in the mid-1980s. At Hiroshima, one of the men commented to his host, "My, this city looks a lot newer than the others we've visited."
I'm sure I could come up with numerous other parallels, but it wouldn't be long before I Godwin the post.