Mkuu, I don't think retaliation is the answer and it has never been. If fact, it is an embassment to retaliate even against your own laws. Reacting in such a way can potentially worsen the situation. When you strike back, are you ready to accept the black hat revenge?
Retaliation especially in international trade may increase risks to the one who retaliate. Even in the WTO system, retaliation for non-compliance is the last resort after all other means have failed. I am just wondering whether the retaliation to impose the $200, was the last resort after exhausting all other options.
Now, you tell me who are those individuals? I know it is painful when the people you branded as "fools" win their argument tena on common sense. Halafu kuna tofauti ya kuwa "aware of their outdated tactics" and to act upon them. Kama sisi tumelalama tuu bila ya ku address those tatics simply because we are aware with them, itatusaidia nini? May be the same "individuals" in our governmnet "have no idea of the jungle tatics" Kenyans use or as you have said they may be "aware of their tactics" but they don't bother to address them?
If land is not free in Tanzania, then why are we giving out to the Westerners? Sure, they have no land left, but we have plenty to the extent that we preparing to handle some to the Westerners to grow genetically modified foods for you to eat. The rest of the land we can't do nothing about it as we still seeking Westerners to come down and extract whaterver is there.
Sure, Kenya is the fourth exporter of tea, but we Tanzania are the third exporter of Gold in Africa. Now, compare and contrast between tea and gold and the benefits each country has received in their respective exports. Can't you even think that pamoja na kuwa na resources zote hizo kwa nini bado Kenya inatupiga bao? Kwa nini hata nchi ndogo kama Rwanda yenye ardhi na resources ndogo zaidi yetu inaelekea kukua kwa speed kubwa zaidi yetu? Labda kuwa na ardhi kubwa na rasilimali ndicho kinachotufanya tubweteke nazo to our own detriment?
It may be hard to get in job in Kenya but is it easy to get job in Tanzania, bearing mind that kati ya wanafunzi 100 waliofanya mitihani ya kidato cha nne mwaka jana, ni 9 tuu ndio walipata between division one and three? Do you think it is going to be easy for the 91 failed students to secure a job?
Mkuu acha kulalama. It won't get you anywhere. You said in another post that here we address issues with a critical eye, lakini ulichoandika hapo juu is very dissapointing. Yaani ni kama vile unawadhibitishia Wakenya how we Tanzania think and address issues. We like complaining all times and ku-address issues subjectively. Well, I will direct you to the very same article again:
allAfrica.com: Tanzania: The Country Has Become a Nation of Complainers