Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is "a mad dictator" who has lost all sense of reality, a United Nations human rights expert said on Monday.
The only way Mugabe can be removed from power is for Europe to convince his "great protector South Africa" to withdraw all support for him, Jean Ziegler, an adviser to the U.N.'s Human Rights Council, told Swiss Radio.
Mugabe, Ziegler declared, "is a former hero of the liberation struggle who has lost all sense of reality.... and become a mad dictator." He added: "The horror in Zimbabwe today is absolutely intolerable."
But Africa's neighbors won't intervene. And Britain, the former colonial ruler, is incapable either physically or psychologically of doing anything militarily.
Which, of course, leaves America.
So I assume that before we intervene, we'll spend the years necessary to plan for any eventuality, gather the proper ratio of allied soldiers to American troops to prove it is multi-lateral, get the UN Security Council resolutions required to demonstrate the sainted international community's approval, set out our "exit strategy," and expand our ground forces by whatever amount is deemed necessary to keep from stressing our ground forces, before we even think of giving the order to intervene.
I mean, we'll do all this first if we go by our Left's positions staked out in the Iraq War debate over the last five years, that's what we should do.
Oh, and just in case, maybe we need to solve the Palestinian issue first.
