Zimbabweans have long since given up hope that the South African leader - Thabo Mbeki - will put pressure on his old friend, Robert Mugabe, to reform.
Sue Lloyd-Roberts, BBC News (08/09/2007)
It's apparent that Robert Mugabe's dictatorship has produced a disaster for the Zimbabweans (black and white). These are starving, dying or fleeing the country. Do we care about Zimbabweans' agony?
What should Western developed countries do?
a) Ignore them (it's not our problem).
b) Send more (and much more!) money to Zimbabwe (which will help R.Mugabe remain in office as explained in the article).
c) Send a UN peaceforce (which will do what they know best: get rich taking advantage of the weapons European and American taxpayers have provided them with).
d) Talk and express our regret about the situation, and forget it straigth away because we are watching Al Gore's An Incovenient Truth while we have South Africa's organic vegetables for dinner (what most progres will do).
e) Send a military force to oust Mugabe from the office and try to organise the most democratic elections that can be attained in a bankrupted country (what it was attempted in Irak by (gosh!!) G.W. Bush).
You may decide. Remember that it should be in congruence with your stance in relation to other wars (even the ones that the US takes part in).
Love and freedom.
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