Zimbabwe’s top cleric urges Britain to invade (Socialist Utopia Alert)

TimesOnline ^ | July 1, 2007 | Christina Lamb

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You bet...let the UN take care of it. Besides, the Brits now have an anti-war government. They’d never step up to the plate.

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When Mugabe took steps to loot the property of his most productive citizens, with support from most of the country,informed observers expected the results which have in fact followed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mugabe
The Africa editor for the Economist, Robert Guest, argues that Mugabe is to blame for Zimbabwe’s economic freefall. “In 1980, the average annual income in Zimbabwe was US$950, and a Zimbabwean dollar was worth more than an American one. By 2003, the average income was less than US$400, and the Zimbabwean economy was in freefall.[35] “[Mugabe] has ruled Zimbabwe for nearly three decades and has led it, in that time, from impressive success to the most dramatic peacetime collapse of any country since Weimar Germany”.[36]

Perhaps the clerics who did so much to bring him to power and legitimize his rule can help to send him along:
http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/assembly/pre-20.html
http://www.layman.org/layman/news/news-around-church/wcc-muzenda-praises.htm

I am neither outraged nor dismissive of the course Britain is taking, simply observant. The best brief account I’ve read of the trajectory of European involvement in Africa once the European empires unraveled after WWII is Paul Johnson’s “Modern Times”, in the aptly titled “Caliban’s Kingdoms” chapter.

The absorption into EU and the fading of the Commonwealth ties are processes, not a switching off of one light and turning on another. They are not “entirely separate” however. At some point the dreaming will end, and the inhabitants at that time will awake to whatever new order has won “the mandate of heaven”.

“Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air;
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve;
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.”