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That was a feeble attempt at humor.  When I read that comment by the UK Foreign Secretary it reminded me of a similar recent ominous comment from Bush or one of his surrogates.  Aha, I thought to myself, soon the drums will start for regime change in Zimbabwe.  But then I thought, good grief, who've we got left to send on such a mission?  The Boy Scouts?  Then the feeble humor light came on: maybe the Colombians.

I think it is indeed a positive sign that another stolen election in Africa at least gets some front page notice, rather than business as usual.  It remains to be seen whether the world community actually does something about it.

Now where are we going and what's with the handbasket?

by budr on Mon Jul 7th, 2008 at 06:55:44 AM EST
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I'm sure I mentioned a while ago that there were rumours of certain Nepalese gentlemen being on a training exercise in  Mozambique.

however its only a rumour, and I pretend no actual knowledge.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Jul 7th, 2008 at 07:01:11 AM EST
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Apologies budr, my WTF was directed at the display of Miliband who's blithely skipping over thousands of people with other nationalities also evicted from their houses, just for the goal to fit the displaced Zimbabweans into his narrative of having "seen" the human face of Zimbabwe.

It is as if the riots and the tens of thousands who were caught up in xenophobic violence no longer matter, because suddenly Zimbabwe is the bigger, more imperative issue and we just twist the facts and context why there are thousands of people still in Methodist Church.

I also fault the BBC for this.

As for intervention in Zim, I'm not exactly holding my breath.

by Nomad on Mon Jul 7th, 2008 at 09:39:17 AM EST
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