The Mugabe issue is tough: China and Russia have often opposing interests in Zimbabwe, so we'd effectively be siding with one or t'other. We have issues with the African Union with whom diplomacy remains embryonic and there's South Africa to consider. Couple that with the fact we're stretched in the middle east and that there's no advantage to be gained, Mugabe's off the radar.
Originally Posted by
David Lock
I was just posing a question really for discussion. I don't know whether leaving Saddam would have been the lesser of two terrible evils? But when the West did take him out we seem to have made a pretty big ***** up of the whole business.
Mugabe presented/presents a quite different scenario. Any action would have had to be taken by African force with discrete help from the West so that he didn't play the race/colonial card. But there is a reasonable opposition there and there is little doubt that the country could regain its status if only.......
An assassin's bullet might do the trick in Zimbabwe but it wouldn't have worked in Iraq?
dl