The Robert Mugabe regime and its armed forces have created a vicious climate of fear in order to defy the will of the people and manipulate the outcome of the June 27 presidential run-off. I fully support the decision of Morgan Tsvangirai and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) to withdraw from the elections. I agree with the assessment of UN Secretary General Moon that “conditions do not exist for free and fair elections right now.

That is an understatement. Human rights monitors have documents the killing of more than sixty opposition political activists, the beating and torture of 2,000 others, the displacement of tens of thousands, and the suspension of nongovernmental aid programs that provide nutrition to an already vulnerable population. These are the actions of a desperate regime that has lost all legitimacy.

I believe the international community must act to impose sanctions against Mugabe and his cronies and thereby hasten the end of that regime. We should consider expelling Mugabe’s diplomats from Washington and explore options with our friends in Africa and beyond, including suspending Zimbabwe’s participation in regional organizations as long a Mugabe clings to power. The results of the March 29 election must form the basis of a post-Mugabe resolution in Zimbabwe.

The “post-Mugabe resolution” will never occur until another few hundred thousand people get hacked to pieces, if the people I read in the New York Times have their way, and even then it’ll be an outside chance.

Those Africans, you know: their lives are WORTHLESS. Astonishing how the Left in this country toes the line.

Perhaps they should post a few comments to the New York Times, if they think they can pierce the ideological veil that surrounds the place when anyone discusses Zimbabwe.

Marxism is thicker than blood, always has been.

The solution to Mugabe costs less than $2.00. A match 308. There is no other solution, save doing nothing and watching the people of Zimbabwe alternately murder one another and starve to death.

The real culpability in the United States should begin and end with some of the people who posted in the New York Times’ thread about the election in Zimbabwe before the opposition decided that it didn’t want to die to the last man, woman and child: their “get soft” recommendation for Mugabe had the predictable effect and emboldened him.

So what do you do with a guy like that? Sean Penn will get up and say that the United States should do something: unfortunately Sean Penn’s friends from Ridgemont High have already spoken, and the blood has already been spilled.