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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
I try to look for the most practical solutions. Sometimes I find the answers because I don't object to immigration. Where the newly oppressed minority (formerly part of the oppressive minority class) is anything resembling 1% or .5% of the population, this country and old europe and whoever else oughta be bringing em in. At least, in the case where they are all of British or Dutch (or some basically single or identifiable) origin. I like to think about the Netherlands as a sorta Israel for Dutch people everywhere. Let these oppressed people move back to their fatherland.

Hell, I'll kick in a bit of money, just so I can quit hearing about them getting raped and killed as Zimbabwe slides completely into chaos and anarchy.

To more directly address the point, military intervention? No way. There are way easier and justifiable/defensible solutions out there, and it doesn't involve intervening on behalf or a formerly-oppressive white minority in Zimbabwe, even if they are the best farmers in the country.

As a really, really good example of what you are talking about with the limits-of-power, I think North Korea is the model case. What in the world can we do there militarily, within reason? The only way we take that country out is by nuking it. And to save its starving people? No thanks. Its an impossible choice, but I'll take their starvation at their G's hands to their destruction at our hands.

While Western countries tend to view the situation in Zimbabwe through a post-colonial prism that focuses on the white minority, what Mugabe is doing is using the few remaining whites as a scapegoat. The minority (or majority, depending on which election results you credit) party is black-led. The white farmers forced off their land can often emigrate. The blacks who starve to death cannot.