"Let's see, it's too bad they are starving, but Mugabe brought this whole thing on himself. He's going to use starving children to get aid, which he will promptly steal. We could try giving aid through nongovernmental organizations, and that might help ease the suffering. But even nongovernmental aid might help prop up Mugabe, so we have to be careful."
We need to send a message that Mugabe's behavior is unnaceptable. He should be removed from power. But with so much else going on in the world, we can't really send in the Marines. It's a tragic situation, and people are going to die. The question is how can we get rid of Mugabe? No easy answer exists."
How a liberal brain might respond to this article.
"Okay, Mugabe has killed a lot of people and driven people off the land. But he is going against white people. That must mean he hates western civilization. I hate western civilization too, because my parents were brought up in western civilization, and I hate them. They used to tell me I was special when I was a baby, but then they stopped telling me that as much as I got older. They even made me take out the trash and clean my room as if I was just another kid! Well, I AM special, darn it!
I bet Mugabe is just like me. He's just trying to get respect from a civilization that doesn't understand that he's special.
Okay, we've now logical established that Mugabe is the good guy. If he's the good guy, then the starvation is either bad luck or the fault of western civilization. In either case, more sensitive souls like me have to help. Part of being special is being more sensitive than everyone else.
"I know! I'm going to organize a benefit concert tomorrow! Maybe I'll even get to meet Bono!"
Well, UN, you were too slow to respond to this whole damn mess. If you weren't in bed with every 2-bit commie dictator in the world you would have seen this coming and done something about Zimbabwe. Now, it's an after-the-fact attempt to save thousands from a death by starvation. Too bad, so sad. It's time for some tough love for the welfare states in the cess-pool that is Africa. As long as the Western world continues to bail out failed dictatorships, there will never be any positive change.