What to do with Mugabe?

The international community is at an absolute loss at it faces the situation in Zimbabwe. This is in part because it has ignored that issue for too long and now, as the events are reaching catastrophic proportions, no one knows what to do. Unilateral sanctions (such as the ones the USA and France say they’ll take) are not just ineffective, they are just likely to add fuel to Mugabe’s fiery rhetoric on colonialism. Short of having an African Nation take responsibility for “eliminating” Robert Mugabe, the only pragmatic way to deal with Zimbabwe’s mess would be for the G8 to force South Africa and the nations that strongly support Mugabe to change their positions by “bribing” them with economic or financial aid. That way, they could force another African Union summit aimed at unequivocally condemning the old tyran and unseating him for good by mean of occupying the country and cleaning it up. Without strong medecine, the World and the Zimbaweans may just have to wait until the man’s dies of natural causes.