Remember, Saddam Hussein was once a friend, too.
By the way, where are the reports from Somalia, Sudan, Congo, etc, etc.
Gotcha, agenda-pushing MSM!
"Bishop finds flock tormented in Zimbabwe"
"Anglican worshipers in Zimbabwe are routinely being arrested and beaten, churches are being padlocked by police, diocesan bank accounts have been frozen, and clergy vehicles are being seized, Massachusetts Episcopal Bishop M. Thomas Shaw said yesterday after returning from a secret mission to the violence-torn southern African nation."
"Bishop finds flock tormented in Zimbabwe; State Dept. issues protest, says event won't be forgotten" by Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times | June 6, 2008
JOHANNESBURG - A high-speed car chase through the Zimbabwean countryside with police in hot pursuit of US diplomats. A phalanx of armed riot police blocking the Americans' car. And threats by supporters of President Robert Mugabe to drag the diplomats from their vehicle at a roadblock, burn the car, and kill them.
It reads like a script from a Hollywood thriller, but it actually signified a new low mark in US relations with the Mugabe regime.
Harare is toughening its security crackdown in the lead up to a presidential election runoff on June 27, but the dramatic cat and mouse game yesterday between Zimbabwean security forces and American diplomats left analysts wondering whether the regime cares at this point about its international reputation....
Why should they? Israel doesn't.
Sean McCormack, a spokesman for the State Department:
"It is outrageous. It is unacceptable. And while this immediate incident has been resolved, it will not be forgotten. It is an example of the fact that this government doesn't know any bounds. It flouted all international convention, as well as the protections accorded to diplomats accredited to their country. And it is a taste of the kind of oppression and violence that this government is willing to use against its own people."
I'm wondering, what are we going to do?
Invade? Bomb? Bluster?
Silence on Israel and its siege or its settlers stoning Christian peacemakers though, McCormack and MSM?
"In Hebron a Jewish settler child age 10-12, eyes full of hate, pushed over a 70 year old man in our delegation and then picked up a rock to throw at us. A bit later a settler spit in the face of a Palestinian. On another occasion, another settler boy kicked a CPT woman and then threw a rock at her while a soldier stood by taking no action. A Palestinian child throwing a rock or kicking a settler or a soldier would be arrested and imprisoned, and most likely labeled a terrorist."
Whatever...
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice protested the altercation, saying the issue was a matter for the UN Security Council.
A Zimbabwean police spokesman told the Associated Press the diplomats were not threatened. He said police tried to protect the foreigners from an angry mob....
Stephen Morrison, director of the Africa desk at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, a former policy planner for the secretary of state:
"It makes it look like this is emerging as a kind of Burma or Myanmar-style crackdown that tends to defy all norms in the surrounding region. There's a certain amount of nihilism to this, a certain amount of defiance. There's a certain amount of 'We are getting what we want at whatever the cost.' "
Need I even say it?
Meanwhile, my AmeriKan War Daily doesn't mention:
"Translation: none of the African countries the US has spoken to about this wants us in their countries, and who can blame them??" -- Mike Rivero of What Really Happened
The head of the ISS, Mike Hough, says the US's push to tap into Africa's oil resources, together with a desire to counter the growing Chinese influence, make it unlikely it will abandon its planned Africa command centre...."
Hence, Zimbabwe being a problem.
Now I really am wondering who is pulling the strings and funding Mugabe's opposition.
Look, he's an asshole dictator and his government sucks, but which one doesn't?
