Apparently, Mugabe isn't content to merely starve his political opponents.

Okay, let's try this one more time...at least this time, I THINK I'm at the right post!!

Rand, Rand, Rand...

Of course, you MUST realize that the more enlightened segments of society know that since Mugabe is (a) nonwhite and (b) Marxist-Leninist, he is therefore imbued with limitless virtue!

If it can't be twisted in such a fashion that it is the responsibility or fault of the US or Isreal, she'll (and Noam, Sontag, and their ilk) will have nothing to say.

"Move along, nothing to see here."

You don't understand.

The anti-poverty folks have said that we need to reduce the number of people who are living on less than $1/day.

Mugabe is doing his part.

Addison:

Then you're not reading the right sites. The US is to blame because we're holding Mugabe up to a different set of standards. We apparently didn't condemn the previous white government for doing exactly the same thing (rotsa ruck finding when they did the same thing, but that's so pedantic).

Most importantly, Mugabe is a genuine revolutionary hero! The same way that the Left pretty much refused to recognize the atrocities of Stalin, Mao, and Kim Il-Sung when they were in power, or made excuses for them, be assured that few Left-wingers will actually have the temerity to question a genuine Black Liberationist as a despot. No matter HOW many he kills/rapes/abuses.

In the grand scheme of Left-isms, being Left trumps abusing your own people, engaging in genocide, anti-gay discrimination, rape-as-tool, etc.

Long live the Revolution!