Well said, CW. If posters would make the effort to learn the facts, they would not resort to cliches and bogus beliefs in commenting on this tragedy. Zimbabweans have done what the gurus of the West have advised them in resorting to the ballot box, not the gun.
Well, it's not working.
Do the savants have any other suggestions meeting the criteria for politically correct responses, or may they just off this mad tyrant, Mad Bob ?
BTW - thank you for the nice remarks the other day. I feel the same about your participation on these threads.
How the next leader is selected is unimportant. How he leads is what matters. Pinochet came to power by a violent military coup, and turned Chile into a model for the rest of Latin America.
Mugabe controls the military and has suppressed most of his opposition. His neighbors are almost entirely in cahoots with him, and those of us living far afield have little to gain by intervening. The Zimbabweans, in other words, made an extremely uncomfortable bed for themselves, and are now going to have to lie in it.