[Aussie Dasher]

What exactly, may we ask, does the UN intend doing about it?????

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Nothing.

[Richard Kimball]

They'll be sending people to molest the underage girls.

[skeeter]

He took aim at the international community for what he called a "shocking" lack of pressure on Zimbabwe.

Read 'its whities fault.' Of course.

[Polybius]

What exactly, may we ask, does the UN intend doing about it?????

[A CA Guy]

Where is Jesse Jackson and the black panthers in ending this violence?

[GeronL]

There are reports that farms are being razed for growing things besides maize

[pissant]

It could be worse. It could be France.

[Steve Van Doorn]

Didn’t the UN just ‘save’ the Sudan from themselves recently? The only country that is sending troops that I know of is China around 400 and china makes no stink about wanting that country for a base of operation.

[Paladin2]

The UN needs to consolidate all bureaucratic functions and its headquarters in Zimbabwe. The US delegation can then just video conference.

[Mr. Jeeves]

He took aim at the international community for what he called a "shocking" lack of pressure on Zimbabwe. "The political leaders continue to be silent. They are saying there is quiet diplomacy, but you can't have quiet diplomacy for a year with no results," he said.

Don't spend twenty years holding a failing dictatorship up as a paragon of human rights and native African achievements and then expect political correctness-infested Western nations to turn on a dime and start criticizing it. Too many of today's Western governments are filled with liberal characters to whom Robert Mugabe is as sacrosanct as Nelson Mandela - and to whom the mere mention of the word "Rhodesia" damns one as the vilest of racists.

Mugabe has got a free pass until he murders a million blacks. Maybe even beyond that.

[Tall_Texan]

Absolutely nothing. Zimbabwe is a black government that wrested their power by eliminating whites at any cost.

"Ethnic Cleansing", at its purest.

The U.N. sees no problem here. No sir.

[Alouette]

What exactly, may we ask, does the UN intend doing about it?????

They'll get around to it, sometime, after they condemn Israel for the 1000th time for those inconvenient checkpoints.

[Democratshavenobrains]

The UN is too busy babysitting the Palestinians for another 60 years.

[Nuc1]

If their hope is with the UN, they will die.

[ArmstedFragg]

He took aim at the international community

Apparently the U.N. has now gone bipolar. THEY are the international community. Except... of course... when something needs to be accomplished, then they're not the international community. Maybe they could go to some sort of colored flag system, so we could determine whether it's an 'international community' day or not.

[surely_you_jest]

"It is as bad as it can get," Mr Kothari said.

This type of comment generally means that things are about to get much, much worse.

[GSlob]

Just when you think "it's as bad as it can get", it will become worse. Malice and idiocy by themselves do not know any limits, and could only occasionally limit one another.

[art_rocks]

What could be wrong in this country. Once the colonialist were gone, it was suppose to be heaven on earth.

[speedy]

He took aim at the international community for what he called a "shocking" lack of pressure on Zimbabwe.

The international community, including the Carter Administration in the US, went through hoops to help install the government that resulted in Mugabe taking charge. He was the toast of the west in the late 1970s and early 80s. I think the "international community" would rather see every last Zimbabwean starve to death than have to backtrack on Mugabe.

[claudiustg]

---LIVING conditions have worsened in Zimbabwe, where most of the 700,000 people who lost homes or businesses in mass evictions last year were still struggling to find shelter, a United Nations housing expert said today.---

If they will not defend their homes, if they will not fight, what is anyone to do for them?