Its a difficult one this, i have worked with a lot of people from zimbabwe and to be honest there opinion is divided about him and his methods.
Apparently the opposition parties are no better and that we only hear what our media wants us to hear.
I don't think that Britain should get involved. The shared history that we have with this country is not the best. We invade, take it over, give independance, stand back in a civil war, etc
Whatever our Government says, they have the right to say bugger orf
Dave_Notts
Zimbabwe once exported food, now it's people are starving. While Zimbabwe has had a checkered past I think it may be time for a change.
As for intervening. America have no interest, so the little bulldog will not stray that way. A pity, I think the Commonwealth have a duty to Zimbabwe and we are doing nothing about it. Shame on us! Shame for invading Iraq, shame for doing nothing.
whoever take over from mugabe will in time just be as corrupt.
Let them just carry on kicking the shit out of each other.
We got enough problems in our country to sort out before we think about mugabe.
Fuck em.A-bomb the bloody lot.
It might seem strange but in my mind though obviously not a good situation our troops being so far from home in the middle east, but the place is in a way quiet. By tis I mean there is no immediate threat of of a massive upsurge in violent conflict in the middle east. Granted not a solution in the long term but maybe rather than exacerbating any more violent inter middle east conflicts it may well be preventing them.
It is also worth noting that whatever anyone thinks about the fact that we, the west, i suppose, are there and the act of it being oil. Well unfortunately oil is the international super currency without it eveyones f*cked so too look after our interests we may have to deal with the devil.
Going back to Zimbabwe I see that the local countries are looking at getting together to discuss the election problem and Mugabe. Well at least then the west will no doubt have sway with some of those governments.
Fuck em.A-bomb the bloody lot.
shame on you,bomb the lot just cos their leader is corrupt
After syphillising the world building the British Empire in the first place, Britain, 'generally speaking' did withdraw from power and influence in a relatively ordered and civilised fashion from most of the world.
The great exception to this was the rush to abandon Rhodesia because of the 'race' and 'apartheid' overtones. The UK could, and should, have militarily ensured that the state of hand over to any majority government in Rhodesia ensured future democratic rights for the people. Unfortunately in our rush to have our ties with Rhodesia visibly cut so as to avoid racist condemnation we simply stood back and watched whilst an emotive country voted for the first time ever for the man who waved the nationalist Zimbabwe flag hardest.
Our abandonment of the people of the former Rhodesia is shameful and spinesless and I am not talking about white Rhodesians I am talking about the vast majority of ordinary Africans who inhabit one of the most beautiful and naturally wealthy countries on that continent.
Those in the know predicted the path of the Mugabe regime thirty years ago and I remember being villified for days after a letter I wrote was printed in a national newspaper. I wrote about Dictatorship, genocide, political killings, anti white racism and forced ejection from the country yet I was branded xenophobic and anti democratic. The reality has been all these things and more and we should be ashamed that this country has allowed this monster to murder, , steal and terrorise ALL of his own people with complete immunity. The history books will stand Robert Mugabe and Idi Amin side by side as the most evil of all African tyrants and we stood by and let him get away with it.
Shame on us.
