Blame Canada.

A number of years ago, the Commonwealth conference attempted, with Blair giving the impetus, to censure Mugabe for his actions at the time. Chretien, the Canadian prime minister blocked the move. The Commonwealth conference lost it’s relevance, but Mugabe survived to do worse.

Oddly enough, at the time there existed a modicum of societal and governmental structure that simply removing Mugabe may have been sufficient. Now there exists only a terrorized people and no institutions. Any solution now requires nation building, wholesale assumption of the basic function of government, because none exists.

Derek