And if that dosn't attract the Trolls.... I dont know what will!

You must be kidding? Zimbabwe will never be a focus of the US/UK. As you imply, we are too busy stealing oil and building McDonalds restraunts. If possible, can you illustrate for me how the suffering in Zimbabwe is the fault of the US? That will be an interesting read. Zimbabwe is over for now. If AIDS continues to ravage the region, it may be an issue on the geopolitical plate again but, barring a civil war, it is seen as simply a rogue state with an insane ruler who is on the decline. Eventually, they will come around (can you say 'Libya'?) and will hopefully look back on the ZANU-PF period as Russians view the Stalin period. I would write more but I have to go get on my high frequency radio and contact the local 'elders of Zion' chapter and see if I can find what instructions they have for US foreign policy tommorrow. Cheers.

Zimbabwe is nothing more than an accelerated example of the road that most of the african countries have walked or is walking.

Indeed Mugabe is a thug of the highest order.  This is a sh#thole country that is in dire need of a leadership change.

The fact is that whatever happens in Zimbabwe/South Africa/anywhere else in Africa does not impact on the interests of the major powers of the world.  They simply do not care if people die in their thousands in Africa as shown during the massacre in Rwanda, where some of them knew what was going on but chose to ignore it.