Categories: politics, religion
Date: 12 December 2008 20:40:27
Growing up I was lucky enough to live through the Cold War and enjoy the stories that came out regardaing American attempts to kill Fidel Castro - exploding cigars et al - or the Russians killing Bulgarians with umberellas. Who would believe that these things a) happened & b) were real, not some fictional spy story.
So imagine my amazement as I was driving home today.
The Minister of Information frtom Zimbabwe (a ZANU PF memember) was telling us all that the cholera outbreak is part of a British plot to invade Zimbabwe. Not a natural outbreal but a plot for us to bring Zimbabwe back into the Empire. This seems to be up there with Comical Ali and his declaration that the Coalition forces were not in Baghdad, as US tanks moved past in the background.
Normally when regimes start making declarations such as these you know that their days are numbered. Yet Mugabe's ZANU PF always seem to bounce back. Not even rioting soldiers and police officers seem to be enough to destroy this oppresive government. A report earlier in the week said how the average Zimbabwean was to docile to riot and overthrow the government.
They have almost no water or power; they can only withdraw money once a day and then it won't even pay for their bus fare, let alone food; the infrastructure is breaking down further and further; no one can control the police or army.
Outside governments have neither the inclination or ability to bring about a regime change. The Zimbabwean people don't seem able to unite and rise up against their government. It would just make things even worse if the country erupted into civil war.
Short of sending in the troops all we can do is pray for our brothers and sisters, that they'll have strength, they'll treat evil with compassion and that God will provide.