Inherit—I too have been waiting for the-CIA/Mossad-did-it shoe to drop. Maybe this is so blatantly Mugabe’s screw-up that none of the usual suspects can figure out a way to spin the blame. Or maybe they’re still too busy on the “Settlement” thread where you and Howard are amazingly persistent in hurling pearls before the willfully-uninformed.  Continually repeating facts and having them bounced back in those loony anti-Semitic/paranoid patterns has got to be bad for your mental health, though it’s probably worth it just so they can’t simply dump their poison into credulous ears without challenge. Sometimes I have to give it a rest; so much sounds like ‘30s’ Germany discourse that it is pretty upsetting. Oh—Mendez’ suggestion that all the Jews go to Israel was already made by Hamas, “so we can get ride of them all in one place, all at once.”

Aaron, You’re probably right; Zimbabwe’s oil-free status is not going to prod a “the world rushed in” moment. Ban ki Moon ia wringing his hands at the UN, but that doesn’t do a thing for a family in which mot of its memberes have died and are dying of cholera.

The man must think that the world is insane and he is the only sane person left in the world.

There’s no major oil in play here and no major corporate interests to protect.  I’m not the least bit surprised we’re not “running right over there,” and neither is anyone else.  I’m not saying it’s right, but it’s the way things are.

Of course Zimbabwe’s Mugabe is blaming Britain. And it wouldn’t bother the BBC a bit if instead he was blaming the U.S. or Israel. Maybe this will give the Durban conferees someone else to beat up on. Though I blame British policy for some of the world’s ills, particularly in the Middle East, I hope all of the people who were so critical of Ian Smith’s Rhodesia remember that under the Brits Rhodesia turned out one of the most universally literate, educated populace in the world. Now Zimbabweans are not only starving but their children play in streets running with sewage, and are dying of cholera. Has this qualified as a humanitarian crisis yet? If so, maybe Vanessa Redgrave will go and dance in a Zimbabwean street to show her solidarity.