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2008-06-20 Africa Subsaharan

US Calls for Stronger International Action on Zim

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Posted by Fred 2008-06-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Can he afford to go to war?
I'm thinking he can't.
It sounds quite expensive.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-06-20 11:11|| 2008-06-20 11:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Yeah, Mugabe can.

It'll be an internal war.

Mugabee has the arms. He has the 'veterans'. Likely his military leaders have been getting additional training. His patron is quite willing to pony up the extra funding for future considerations.

If it's quick and vicious, like I think it will be, any so-called international action will be moot. The Africans will back down. For all their words, the AU and the SADC are pretty much impotent. Besides, there's always been reluctance to throw-over a fellow African revolutionary.

Posted by Pappy 2008-06-20 13:28|| 2008-06-20 13:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Why now is Condi making all this noise? Did she finally wake up and see that all the goodness that used to be Zimbabwe has 'left the building?'
seems about 2 or 3 years too late.
where was all the concern at the time of the election rehersal?

Posted by USN, Ret. 2008-06-20 14:46|| 2008-06-20 14:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Why now is Condi making all this noise?where was all the concern at the time of the election rehersal?

It took a really bad economic situation (that finally hurt the Zim's mid-level elite) for the oppo to come up with some sort of credibility. Then it took an election/runoff result, a horde of economic refugees and likely USDS arm-twisting (and probably some incentives) to get African leadership on board.

Likely there was no concern because nobody thought the MDC-T had a snowball's chance in hell. Rice and the Brits could make all the noise they wanted, but if Zimbabwe's neighbors couldn't be brought/dragged on board the bandwagon, nothing was going to happen.

Posted by Pappy 2008-06-20 17:48|| 2008-06-20 17:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Its for the UNo-UNSC = USA to "go to War", notsomuch Mugabe and other.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-20 19:08|| 2008-06-20 19:08|| Front Page Top

#6 In Vegas it's called 'insurance.' She's focusing on ~~Obama~~ Africa for....post Jan 2009 'job after.'

Posted by Besoeker 2008-06-20 19:45|| 2008-06-20 19:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Did you get that from the same source that told you Schwartz did nothing but play golf in Hawaii?

Posted by Pappy 2008-06-20 22:40|| 2008-06-20 22:40|| Front Page Top

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