Zimbabwe -- Food crisis worsens as maize stocks run out

Zimbabwe Independent ^ | March 15, 2002 | Blessing Zulu

[Balding_Eagle]

Quite amazing they made it this long.

[Chewbacca]

I would be up to donating money to and organization that would air drop handguns to the displaced farmers to fight off the government and unwashed thugs.
The French helped our countrymen fight off the British, lets help another country overthrow their tyranical government.

[Chewbacca]

Just a thought, anyway.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Meanwhile, the farm invasions continue. It is fall in the southern hemisphere and with the disruption of commercial farming it looks like there will effectively be no winter crop.

There must be some way to stop this madman Mugabe.

[ikka]

John Galt has left the building.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

It certainly would be nice to give them a fighting chance instead of sitting back and waiting until the nighmare of walking skeletons becomes the news of the day.

[nopardons]

We knew this was coming many months ago. Giving aid, won't do much to help; especially when it is doubtful, that it will even reach the starving.

[Don Joe]

Bush said that we do not recognize the results of the election, and we're in the process of deciding with our friends what to do about it. I suspect "our friends" boil down to Russia and the UK.

I wouldn't be surprised to see the three nations send a joint Olympic Ass-Kicking Team there to set an example for any other tinhorn despots who think they can use the current global chaos as an opportunity to consolidate their little pockets of stalinist hell.

If we don't nip that murderous thug in the bud, I think we'll be looking at him and a few others like him as the next round of saddams and osamas that we'll have to deal with.

Some weeds need to be mowed down pronto. Mugabe seems to be trying to convince the world he's one of 'em.

[unamused]

The really sick f*cking thing is that we will give them billions to end their hunger....

[nightdriver]

"The United States government, in a bid to avert widespread hunger in the country, has provided money to buy food for starving Zimbabweans under the WFP emergency food aid programme."

Well, great! Now since the United States has provided support, ol' Mugabe can be just as nasty as he wants to be. All this food can now be used by him for his political advantage by withholding it from all opposition. Way to go, America! (/rant)

[Calvin Locke]

Are there any conditions attached to the food?

Of course. Prior to the election, Mugabe would only allow the food to be distributed by government hacks,
giving full credit to the then current "president".

Wait a minute, that would have been Mugabe.

[norton]

All the rants aside, all the hopeful humanitarian wishes aside; sometimes it just might make sense to admit that there is nothing that any outside agency (such as us) can do for a country. In this instance, if we help them it'll only get worse and if we don't help them it'll only become worse.

Our tax money should be put to better uses.

What might be of better value would be a complete evaluation of just what WE did that allowed this to come about. Not to absorb blame (guilt - the American drug of choice) but to understand what we need very much to STOP doing to otuers in the name of a utopian new world.

Maybe we ought to include Yugoslavia and Mexico into that evaluation since they seem to be the two opposing poles in our recent activities.

[headsonpikes]

"There must be some way to stop this madman Mugabe."

My FReeper name is a hint. ;^)

[FreePaul]

Ship the starving people weapons and they can overthrow the government and get their own food. Not likely to happen since all of the civilized government officials want to look compassionate to black Africa. Instead of helping people help themselves we traditionally help the tyrants keep the people in slavery.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

That always brings immediate results!!

[tiki]

If only we could say that to Mugabe and his minions and those who took over the farms of the whites but I'm sure the vast majority of the people had nothing to do with all of this. It's just another case of Clinton types ruining others lives so that they could have money and power.

[MissAmericanPie]

When the vast majority sit's by and let's a few thugs ruin their country, eating dirt, in one form or another, is usually the end result.