No but Western politicians might be a bit more eager to intervene rather than just turning their backs and pretending the place doesn't exist.
I reckon the reason they were so opposed to Saddam was they thought he might be difficult to deal with when it came to oil, so they got rid of him in the hope of sticking a puppet-in-the-pocket-of-the-States type government in his place. Well yes, they well and truly fucked that one up for sure, but I reckon they might have the same view on Mugabe if there were oil in Zimbabwe.
Mugabe has to be every bit as bad as Saddam. He's just as much of a dangerous pscychotic power-hungry bully. To make matters worse, from what I can gather it's nigh on impossible to send aid to Zimbabwe. There's just no way of making sure it gets to where it's supposed to go. And now he's threatening to stay in power for another seven years - what will there be left for him to be in charge of?
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