The archbishop cried: "send in the troops"

Here's Jeff Jacoby in the Boston Globe with "Zimbabwe's horrors":

Countless lives could be saved, and incalculable suffering ended, if Mugabe were forced from power. A detachment of US Marines, I wrote on this page in 2002, could do the job on its lunch break. The British could do it. South Africa could do it.

But of course no one will do anything. The death toll in Zimbabwe will continue to mount; the misery will continue to spread; the horror stories will continue to multiply. Cry, the beloved country.

Jacoby starts out this article by noting that Roman Catholic archbishop Pius Ncube has implored the United Kingdom to invade their former colony and depose the tyrant Robert Mugabe:

Zimbabwe's leading cleric has called on Britain to invade the country and topple President Robert Mugabe. Pius Ncube, the Archbishop of Bulawayo, warned that millions were facing death from famine, unable to survive amid inflation believed to have soared to 15,000%.

As I've noted before, the tragedy of Zimbabwe is that it used to be the model of a successful former colony, the "breadbasket of Africa." By preaching the gospel of hate and division, Robert Mugabe has driven the country straight into the barren ground and there's every indication he'll steal the election in March.