tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-960370043342228756.post7319159282932178403..comments2024-01-31T16:19:59.446+02:00Comments on Denford Magora's Latest Zimbabwe News Blog: Zimbabwe: Concerns Growing within Government About An Attack on BotswanaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-960370043342228756.post-61777251215862329962008-12-19T06:54:00.000+02:002008-12-19T06:54:00.000+02:00Denford is right ... Tsvangirai and his team do ma...Denford is right ... Tsvangirai and his team do make stinking blunders. I have never heard of an opposition party anywhere with sitting MPs and Mayors that SPEAKS in threats and calls for sanctions as if it is operating from exile. I know that the Zimbabwean political arena is hardly civil but, as Magora indicates, this is bad strategy. Any further suffering of the people of Zimbabwe in another election will be a direct responsibility of the MDC leadership.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-960370043342228756.post-64016211791103444542008-12-18T21:53:00.000+02:002008-12-18T21:53:00.000+02:00@Ben, despite all our obsession of making a joke o...@Ben, despite all our obsession of making a joke out of everything, we Zimbabweans must realise that this is no joke.<BR/><BR/>Money for war will always be found, even if it means cutting off all imports of electricity etc. <BR/><BR/>It is no laughing matter this.The Teamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03547093824020486727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-960370043342228756.post-69587267403939419262008-12-18T17:54:00.000+02:002008-12-18T17:54:00.000+02:00This will only work if we have the money to invade...This will only work if we have the money to invade Botswana. I have said <A HREF="http://zimbabwean-benjamin.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow">here</A> that Grace's one woman "Look East" policy might cost as much as it would cost to invade one of our neighbours!Benjaminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10635351903294373492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-960370043342228756.post-69419481056593663742008-12-17T23:53:00.000+02:002008-12-17T23:53:00.000+02:00My God, JollyRoger I had not thought of that at al...My God, JollyRoger I had not thought of that at all. You are right, President Bush and Tony Blair did indeed set a precedent in modern international conflicts.<BR/><BR/>The unilateral action against Iraq, especially, resulted in Russia feeling bold enough to give Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia a bloody nose, claiming he started the aggression.<BR/><BR/>What I fear is that this may be the reasoning within the deluded ZANU PF. They should not forget that they are not as strong as Russia.<BR/><BR/>Then again, America now knows to go to the United Nations first to ask for a force to go into Botswana and dislodge Mugabe should he invade.<BR/><BR/>Russia and China will obviously not even listen to the merits of the case and simply say no.<BR/><BR/>The question then becomes: should the USA and Britain decide they will go the unilateral route after that, will Russia and China commit men and arms to Mugabe's cause?<BR/><BR/>That would stop the American and British stone cold, they would be risking a world conflagration otherwise.<BR/><BR/>BUT: I think sense will prevail, Mugabe knows how much the Americans and British are itching to hit him and hit him hard. He must surely remember Grenada, a country whose head of state is the queen of England but which Ronald Reagan attacked anyway. Without even giving the British notice.<BR/><BR/>President Bishop was killed in that attack. All the British did was clear their throats disapprovingly.<BR/><BR/>So, although I see the danger, I think Mugabe can not be that dumb. It would be the end of him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-960370043342228756.post-35530619084225791502008-12-17T23:25:00.000+02:002008-12-17T23:25:00.000+02:00Military action is the most usual route for a tyra...Military action is the most usual route for a tyrant to distract the domestic population from the ills of the country. We in America certainly know that better than anyone. And thanks to the American tyrant, Mugabe can say that unilateral "pre-emptive" action is justified when the "threat" is great enough.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com