[MadIvan]

I am waiting for the army to turn on Mugabe. It will occur when they realise they're being just as robbbed as the rest of society.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[wardaddy]

There are parts of the US where folks worth just a million or two can't afford a really nice house.

Strange...and I know it sounds crazy to most freepers

[wardaddy]

There are parts of the US where folks worth just a million or two can't afford a really nice house.

Strange...and I know it sounds crazy to most freepers

[Jet Jaguar]

rent for her one-room dwelling has soared to Z$2 million a month.

Yikes!

[spikeytx86]

Zimbabwe a glimpse into a democratic future.

[Southack]

"I am waiting for the army to turn on Mugabe. It will occur when they realise they're being just as robbbed as the rest of society."

What's missing from the article is the key word: Communism.

Mugabe is a communist. His army is staffed with communists.

Communism has failed in Zimbabwe, failed in the CCCP, failed in Cuba, and failed in North Korea.

The Army can take over Zimbabwe, but what are they going to change? They are communists. The communist answer is price controls, enforced at gunpoint.

Antonio Gramsci said that true Communism would *always* fail as the people/workers would eventually come to see the ruling Communists in the same light as they once viewed the ruling class in capitalistic societies...as the new boss...leading to inevitable popular rebellions against communism itself.

This happened first in Poland under Lech Walensa, then East Germany and Czechoslavakia and Romania et al. It will happen in Cuba once Castro dies. It will happen in North Korea.

And it will most certainly happen in Zimbabwe...

...but the question there is what will replace it?!

A rebellion or coup by the Army would likely as not lead to totalitarianism, martial law, or a far harsher version of Communism than Mugabe's current failure...hardly an improvement for the people there.

And the population at large of Zimbabwe isn't educated enough to grasp the benefits of capitalism or democracy. Their main real hope is a benevolent dictator or tribal law/rule, save for a re-colonization by the West.

At least most African tribal law permits low-level capitalism (buy/sell/trade by individuals).

In the near-term, an outright invasion of Zimbabwe by one of its neighbors is a very real possibility...and explains Mugabe's otherwise ridiculous purchase of new combat fighter jets.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

A few years ago I paid $24,000 for two beers at a hotel near Victoria Falls. No one knew what to charge for anything. No one could make change. Workers could not cash their pay checks and were forced to leave the full amount wherever they went to buy even a small needed item. Seems that hyperinflation in Zimbabwe now like Nazi Germany times, where wheelbarrows were needed to bring the money for a loaf of bread.

This ruthless dictator is what the supporters of socialism bring to this world. In the U.S. they call themselves "progressives." Left to their own devices this is what they bring to countries they take over. The nationalizing of the farms and stealing them from whites has led Africa's properous bread basket to become an empty basket with maize now unaffordable for making bread and thus a starving population. All because of a failed system called Communism.

[goldstategop]

One of the richest African countries beggared overnight. What will it take to convince the Left socialism does not work? Certainly not Zimbabwe's hyperinflation disaster.

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")

[noobiangod]

Hah hah!
Bet they wish they hadn't killed or run off Whitey now.

[RightWingAtheist]

This is like something out of a Frederick Pohl story.

[kittymyrib]

But I'm sure their self-esteem is much higher now that their government officials are all black, right?

[SES1066]

This is the same country/government that just announced plans to buy $50 million USD of military equipment from Russia (includes 10 fighters). This kleptocratic regime makes even the worst European Colonial administration (Belgium Congo probably) look good by comparison. Native rule was the gold standard from the 1950s on in Africa and Asia. I'd wish that there had been something left in the middle between colonialism and South African Apartheid so that a comparison could have been made. Unfortunately, in the anti-colonialism fervor of the Cold War, the baby went out with the bath water ...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1622875/posts

[Razz Barry]

He said that until now the worst effects had been partially offset by remittances from the four million Zimbabweans, a quarter of the population, living outside the country.

So, are we to assume that corrupt governments would fall sooner if remittances were stopped? I think Mexican leaders have that fear.

[Schwaeky]

Is there any right leaning generals (ala Pinochet) in that country the CIA could back to take Mugabe down???