Folks, As we entertain ourselves till the PA Primary can we all take time to contact our Congressman and Senators about what is going on currently in Zimbabwe? This thing is seriously in danger of going out of control if it hasn't already. Mugabe has gotten the Army out in an effort to halt a general strike tomorrow.This on top of his refusal to verify election results in an attempt to allow him to keep his Dictatorship alive.
The crushing cost in lost lives and futures is too great not to act. IF we had a United Nations with any teeth we would have already removed Mr. Mugabe. Millions of Zimbaweans have pored over the borders into other countries. Add this to the refugees from the recent Kenyan ethnic conflicts and you have another impending disaster in Africa.
What hurts as much as anything is that this isn't the way it had to go. Zimbabwe had one of the greatest economies in Africa just after Apartheid was thrown over and the true Gov't of the people of the country was instituted. That promise was squandered away by Mugabe and is in stark contrast to what the ANC was able to accomplish in SA. The economy is in free fall with real inflation rates are rising at alarming rates. The worst is these rates do not hurt the white minority who have been able to create wealth in this fiasco as they have still all the business contacts and use the black market to pad their bank accounts. Foreign investors are picking up land there in deals that would make any honest investor blush.
I emplore each of us to take a minute and do some yelling to Congress about this situation so we can at least try to end this before there is real bloodshed.
Thanks
