tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196779.post3882894434661054453..comments2024-01-03T06:52:57.387-05:00Comments on Pappillon: Robert Mugabe Won't Share PowerJMPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05346798683078093966noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196779.post-57045202485277562842009-01-23T03:37:00.000-05:002009-01-23T03:37:00.000-05:00Mugabe should be assassinated and his regime toppl...Mugabe should be assassinated and his regime toppled by force of arms. He has destroyed beautiful Rhodesia and enslaved her people. The irony is great.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196779.post-51405485293604997442009-01-22T16:35:00.000-05:002009-01-22T16:35:00.000-05:00Full Story with Economist readers' comments.<A HREF="http://www.economist.com/daily/news/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12965792&fsrc=nwl&mode=comment&intent=postTop" REL="nofollow"><BR/>Full Story with Economist readers' comments.</A>JMPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05346798683078093966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196779.post-62385432598036726192009-01-22T16:31:00.000-05:002009-01-22T16:31:00.000-05:00It's a brave prediction to claim that that power w...It's a brave prediction to claim that that power will pass out of Mr Mugabe's hands at some point over the next 18 months.<BR/><BR/>Mugabe will never relinquish power, regardless what the world, Africa or Zimbabweans want. He believes Zimbabwe is his personal possession and is unwilling to give it back to its rightful owners.<BR/><BR/>Therefore this prediction implies that either Mugabe dies (from natural causes or from the attentions of internal agents who decide his patronage is no longer worth their profit from it) or is forcibly driven out. Internal uprising is highly unlikely in the absence of foreign involvement and neighbouring states are unlikely to intervene on that basis. For the same reason external intervention is unlikely. Mugabe has set up a finely balanced network of security apparatus that would make an internal attempt on his life very difficult and dangerous for would be plotters.<BR/><BR/>It seems we rely on God to send Mugabe to his eternal home. Given His dallying with this decision in the past, I re-iterate; that's a brave prediction.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com