The Portuguese government should send the Zimbabwean president an arrest warrant, not a summit invitation.
One of the first acts of the new Portuguese presidency of the EU is announce plans to roll out the red carpet for the Zimbabwean dictator, Presid…

After millions of years of evolution of man starting at the alleged origin in Africa, shouldn’t they be way beyond where they are?

Personally, my heart feels a great deal of sympathy for those in Africa who simply wish to live their lives as good and decent people, but my brain can barely give a rat’s backside about what they do to eachother anymore.

Africa is a mess because it is run by Africans. Getting rid of Mugabe for someone less crazy might lead to some small incremental improvements, but a lot of people seem to believe that if we get rid of him, Zimbabweans will somehow become competent and rational administrators and citizens, when nearly all past evidence is to the contrary.

The problem is not that Africa is run by Africans. It is that it is run by kleptocrats and incompetents who pander to and spread ideology instead of sound economics.

It took thousands of years for civilization to need and produce an Adam Smith. Africa might be only a few hundred years behind, but that makes all the difference.

The Times of London [online] has a story about Mugabe’s thugs forcing the few remaining white farmers to destroy what little food they produce, and preventing them from planting crops.

Thus we see another tyrant commit suicide and take his country with him. We’ve seen this so many times before, and this was predictable right from the start of Mugabe’s reign. We probably stopped it in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the world will probably never forgive us for it. Small wonder the international community will do nothing except wring its hands until the bodies stop twitching and then cry piously “Never again!” I think diplomacy has just about outlived its usefulness.

Apocalypse to follow; film at eleven.

I’m looking so forward to the new 1 Billion-dollar Zimbabwe currency note; Mugabe must be also.

localmalcontent on April 9, 2008 at 8:44 AM

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It is funny (and also sad) that their banknotes now have expiration dates on them, such that they can only be redeemed within a 90 day period.

start a putsch that will likely end with Mugabe at the end of a rope

Now there’s a happy thought. No better place for this homicidal maniac who has destroyed a nation.

It’s sad, wrong, illegal, whatever label you want to put on the Mugabe regimes stubborn hold on power.  But I’ll be damned if I don’t admire the guys "umph".  Give ‘em hell Mugabe!  Never surrender!&#1…

I’m looking so forward to the new 1 Billion-dollar Zimbabwe currency note; Mugabe must be also.

Actually, he is probably thinking more of all those gold krugerrands he has stuffed in a Swiss bank vault…

/sarcasm off

This is their mess and they need to fix it. If anyone should help out locally it is South Africa but given the bunch of jokers nominally running that car-crash of a country that is probably unlikely.

It’s a matter of whether Mugabe will accept his removal from power or if he wants to take a lot of people with him on the way out.

It’s the latter, Ed. Too bad for Zim. Mugabe will never relinquish power voluntarily as he and his cronies have way to much at stake.

The really sad part is for all the talk about civil war, it’ll never happen. As long as Bob controls the military the general population is defenseless to do anything. The “security” forces will kill some rabble rousers for good measure, the MDC will go into hiding, and all will be normal again in Bob’s world.

It’s a damn shame, and the west could care less.