Zimbabwe

A report in today's Times (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article4116638.ece?&EMC-Bltn=INZA49) makes sickening reading. It is clear that any remaining protection of the 'Rule of Law' is crumbling. The military Junta that back Mugabe's presidency have organized their mobs to ensure that the opposition are all but destroyed ahead of the run-off and the international community just watches and waits. The argument for the West not doing anything is partly based on the need not to look like imperialists flexing their arms over Africa again. This is a valid argument but the need to stop the sheer brutality of the violence of that regime should now outweigh this consideration. Africa has failed to do anything. We need to intervene and to do so soon.