I am neither a Russia-basher nor a China-basher. But there was something truly filthy about Russia’s and China’s vetoes of the American-led U.N. Security Council effort to impose targeted sanctions on Robert Mugabe’s ruling clique in Zimbabwe.
-Thomas Friedman
And so it goes, so the world turns, so another blind eye averts its attention to a festering wound on the world's collective conscience. Mugabe and his cronies are holed up in their tower of babel, blaming all the ills on colonialism, brutally repressing its people, and not a damn thing is going to be done about it. Who do we have to blame for this?
The Chinese? The Russians? The South Africans? How about ourselves, and our own selfish misguided historical actions that have shaped the world into what we find ourselves enmeshed in today.
In related news:
Zimbabwe's annual rate of inflation has surged to 2,200,000%, official figures have shown.
In May, the central bank issued a 500m Zimbabwe dollar banknote, worth US$2 at the time of issue, to try to ease cash shortages amid the world's highest rate of inflation.
This is in stark contrast with the situation at independence in 1980 when one Zimbabwe dollar was worth more than US$1.
-BBC News
