Zimbabwe's bad seed

Washington Times ^ | 12/06/02 | (Editorial)

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Just what will the world do about Robert Mugabe, architect of Zimbabwe's despair? Zimbabwe's raging food crisis has recently been reassessed, and experts now say the country's food crisis has advanced into an impending famine.

Meanwhile, America's options for dealing with Zimbabwe's president-by-fraud range from the unattractive to the whimsical to the potentially catastrophic. Choosing the best course of action from this menu is tricky enough. Getting other countries to follow in kind implies another set of challenges.

Thanks principally to Mr. Mugabe's land expropriation policy, 12 million Zimbabweans are facing the threat of starvation in Zimbabwe, according to the World Food Program. If this hunger-dictator scenario seems too familiar (think Somalia), it's because Africa has seen much too much of it. With visions of dead American soldiers being dragged through the streets of a far-away country still fresh in the collective memory, sending in forces to halt the hunger in Zimbabwe is an unlikely policy.

[hoosierskypilot]

Actually, it's becoming painfully obvious that we can't save the world. Especially since the world seems intent upon self-destructing.

[binger]

[Cindy]

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BBC NEWS: "FARRAKHAN BACKS ZIMBABWE LAND GRAB" (ARTICLE SNIPPETS: "Louis Farrakhan, leader of the US Nation of Islam organisation, has backed Zimbabwe's controversial land reform programme at the start of a three-day visit to the troubled country. Mr Farrakhan told the state-owned Herald newspaper that he was in "full support" of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's policies "as it was aimed at correcting a historical injustice"..."Mugabe's government has targeted about 95% of white-owned lands for confiscation.") (July 13, 2002)

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[MigrantOkie]

I wouldn't even let them eat my cake. Let them all starve. The country used to be self sufficient and an exportor of food to the whole region. Now they are not and it's their own fault. They want to steal land from and kill whites for their land grab scheme so as far as I'm concerned let em catch and eat bugs.