I've always had a theory about how the Zimbabwe situation developed. There's nothing quite like a good conspiracy theory - and here's mine.
When Bliar and Bush sat around the log fire and decided that each wanted to do something to really change the world it was agreed that TB would help GB to rid the world of the guy who tried to have his dad assasinated so long as GB then helped TB to get rid of that nasty man Mugabe who was busy embarassing TB at the time and appeared 'untouchable'.
The first part of the plan required a certain amount of manipulation to justify the attack on Iraq (about which we now know a lot - to our undying shame). The second part was getting underway when the rest of the leaders in that part of Africa made it clear to one and all that Mugabe was a revered elder statesman and much respected in that part of the world and that an attack on Zimbabwe would result in adjacent nations, fearing they might be next on the TB GB list, coming to his aid.
The impossibility of US assistance in Zimbabwe became clear once the quagmire in Iraq developed. QED - we are where we are.
G
