Posted on 06/23/2005 7:13:47 PM PDT by blam
Have a good night rest!
What can be done? Africa is a basket case from stem to stern. We find hope when some leader can cut the AIDS rate from 30% to 15% by preaching a modicum of sexual responsibility. Intervention doesn't work. Non-intervention doesn't work. Aid doesn't work. Carrots don't work. Sticks don't work. I wish that I could propose some great conservative answer with parts of Milton Friedman and Thomas Jefferson, but there's nothing that can be done for a very long time.
That is not fair. Zim is a totally repressive dictatorship. You can't blame the citizens for not doing enough to stop Mugabe, he has power and he'll kill anyone who lifts a finger. I know it's frustrating and it's hard to be lectured to that you haven't done enough, but the answer isn't to return blame for blame.
Serious sanctions would go a long way. We did it with South Africa. Then again, we're playing tiddlywinks with China so I shouldn't expect much to be done about Zimbabwe. Anyway, there's a reason why I don't talk much about these issues anymore on FR and I've been reminded why.
Well, not now. Thanks to Jacques Chirac, we can't go into Zimbabwe now. He was the one. Shroeder would have backed down. The Left would have been cowed. But one man, Jacques Chirac, ensured that the oppressed people in the world would just have to go on being oppressed just a little bit longer. And Zim has reached that point at which anything is better than what they have now. If some other dictator replaces Mugabe, at least he can't be any worse.
He didn't have a vendetta against white farmers. He wanted his friends, family and associates to get free land. Those farms didn't go to the general public, you know.
You're right about that.
Lord have mercy.
And maybe SA isn't the best example of a success story.
:) I like hearing that. It makes me feel warm and/or fuzzy.
No SA isn't a good example but the point about the sanctions and worldwide debate is what I was getting at. I suppose we won't know his reaction until they actually happen. Then what? If he doesn't listen, are we going to invade Zimbabwe? Probably not, not that I think we should but it is a moral quandry. If Japan didn't bomb us in Pearl Harbor, would we have involved ourselves in WW2? I wonder about that.
You kidding? Get out of that toilet. It's over.
Next up - - South Africa.
LOL warm and fuzzies are good at this time of night!
Disgusting. May God bless the souls of these little ones and comfort their parents.
It is a question I have wondered about as well.
Pinging Viking Kitties.
Worldwide debate won't help Zimbabwe. Mugabe doesn't care. Nobody in power cares.
I don't know what to do. But if something is done to get Mugabe out, you won't hear me saying it was the wrong thing to do.
I just hope that the UN doesn't wait like they did last time. Anyway, I know that you know Satan is afoot and that we must pray and appeal to God and not man. I just realised that. I'm here criticising governments when the real ruler is Christ.
I think he should get capped but that's against the Geneva Convention :-)
I join you in prayer for these people, and you are my sister, as you know. :-)
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