Posted on 04/25/2008 1:29:10 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim
Last July, former Zimbabwean Archbishop Pius Ncube raised the possibility of a British invasion of his country to topple Robert Mugabe's regime. "I think it is justified for Britain to raid Zimbabwe and remove Mugabe," he told the Times of London. "We should do it ourselves but there's too much fear. I'm ready to lead the people, guns blazing, but the people are not ready."
Perhaps the Zimbabwean people would be ready and less afraid if they actually had guns to blaze. They do not lack a passion for freedom; it is the necessary tools to wrest themselves from the yoke of tyranny that they need.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
“My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime routinely do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.” - J. Silveira
Bad idea - let Mugabe and his Marxist policies alone be a shining example of their failure to the world. No need for the US to get involved.
We should buy them a boatload of guns and mortar shells ... ok not that exactly. Maybe airdrop some kit in and also some cadre troops, force recognition of the opposition government.
Bad idea. Much better to get South Africa and other neighboring states to overthrow Mugabe.
What makes you think the people of zim could have afforded to buy guns in the first place? It wouldn’t be that hard to buy a gun in a country with an extensive black market like zimbabwe if there was enough cash and demand for weapons...
Zims are disarmed because they allowed Mugabe to disarm them. Until there’s a real hunger for freedom among the citizenry - and a resolute intolerance for tyrants and political corruption - Arms aren’t likely to help matters much.
The wanted to run the country and killed and drove off the whites. Let them starve.
When did Zimbabwe become the 51st state?
It is nothing to do with us. Send in the mighty UN.
I thought we were spreading democracy?
We are at war with terrorists and the nations supporting them. Zimbabwe is no danger to us. If they start supporting Al Q, we should then go in.
” Pius Ncube”
Sounds like a rapper to me!
Nbogus Npachysandra
Ivory tower fools shouldn’t profusely promote civil massacres in American newspapers.
It’s not just guns that would be needed.
Guns, ammunition, clothes, boots, petrol, all petroleum based products, food supplies, medical supplies, military advisers, air cover (or at least enough to eliminate the remaining Zim air fleet), civilian refugee camps, prisoner of war camps, field hospitals, and SUPPLY LINES.
Once you leave Harare and Bulawayo, there is nothing left to scavage, anywhere, nothing to barter, anywhere, until you reach an international border. No stores of food, no petro stations, no medical equipment, almost no draft animals, no motor parts, no ammunition outside of what could be captured from fleeing Zim army, and no way to secure your own supply depots without thousands of penniless starving locals swarming the supply lines.
Which is why the African Union and other African international bodies are hoping it will simply continue into oblivion until after the political leaders of the other countries are retired in south France.
Sounds like the Liberator should be pressed into development again.
One M/N44 rifle: $100.
One 7.62x54R round: $0.25.
The last thing to go thru Mugabe's mind: Priceless.
Joking aside, a suitable rifle & ammo isn't all that expensive, and Zimbabwe was respectably thriving not all that long ago. This is why free (or would-be free) people should well arm themselves before the need arises. They didn't prepare, nobody was ready to do what needs to be done, they get to make that mistake only once.
Stay out of Africa.
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