jgapinoy on June 24, 2008 at 9:02 AM

The League of Democracies would be a total sham because it would inevitably include pretend democracies.

UNSC;

A fair presidential vote is impossible due to the “campaign of violence’ waged by Robert Mugabe’s government. (Like we care.)

Mugabe’s military, reporting to Mugabe;

Mission Accomplished.

Mugabe to his military;

Not until you get Tsavangirai, it isn’t!(Remember My First Rule; Anybody Who Disses Me Needs To Die On General Principles.)

Jimmy Carter, Andrew Young, etc.;

My legs are tingling. (Does the Obamessiah know that this can be done?)

Things will get worse before they get better. And, I fear, not just in Mugabestan.

clear ether

eon

I don’t have a problem with vocal condemnation of actions but I do have a problem with vocal call for action. It is none of our business. Yes people are dying, but they are also dying and oppressed in countries that are our allies. Should we talk tough to China? Do you agree with all this Olympic boycott nonsense? Yet we still heavily trade with China and the moral indignation seems to stop when it costs fifty cents more for a non Chinese widget. Saudi oil anyone? Granted some allies like this are great for torturing people we want to, since we (technically) do not engage in these actions, but they seem to be just as evil as Mugabe. I had no high horse to get off of, there are no high horses in foreign policy, just pretend ones.

WPD, you are damn right and selective enforcement is the rule.

And diplomacy is going to work with similar despots if Barry O does it? Why not give him a trial run…have Barry and Michelle go down there and fix things. Good experience for the man…and woman.

he UNSC met last night and condemned the Robert Mugabe regime for its campaign of violence, and declared that the Friday run-off election would be a travesty and unrecognized by the international community.

Ooh. A UN condemnation. I bet Mugabe is shaking in his boots.

Too bad there wasn’t a stained blue dress as part of the equation. The bombing may have already started.

“I suppose we should be grateful that the UN has done anything after three months of inaction”

An action that wasn’t worth a penny of what was spent to take it. Cindy Sheehan’s “actions” are worth more and have more force. Can we get her to do something?

We really ought to recall our ambassador from South Africa and maybe close our consulate there. There’s no reason to associate with tyrants or their support mechanisms. We ought to also find a willing neighbor to facilitate arming up Mugabe’s opposition quickly. It’s going to be bloody anyway, so it might as well not be a slaughter and I’m not in the mood for a President Obama doing a Clintonesque apology by saying he’s sorry Bush was President at the time.

One cruise missile associated with a meeting of Mugabe and his generals would go a long way in ‘expressing outrage’.

Thabo Mbeki probably wishes he could find a way do to the whites in S. Africa, what Mugabe has done them in Zimbabwe.

Mbeki is an idiot, but not completely insane, as is Mugabe.

What the hell has happened to our country?

JiangxiDad on June 24, 2008 at 7:57 AM

What happens to every prosperous society: its people become more and more complacent. If something doesn’t hit their comfort level, they don’t care.

I suppose we should be grateful that the UN has done anything after three months of inaction, but this shows once again how useless they can be.

I hate to say “I told you so,” but …. Oh, heck. No, I don’t.

I told you so.

Send him the letter,he’s got 24hrs.

If not,have his entire military capabilites
wiped out!

McCain’s League of Democracies looks better every day.

So why doesn’t he talk about it more? Why doesn’t he freaking make a speech about the UN and China and Russia, and the brutality in Zimbabwe.

Why doesn’t Bush??

Why do we have the meekest and mildest people for our leaders?

What the hell has happened to our country?

The US, Britain, and France tried to put some teeth into the resolution by declaring Mugabe’s rule illegitimate

Really? I must have missed the speaches by our un delegates calling the resolution a travesty and demanding action. Which countries ambassador beat the table with his shoe?