How can the West sit back and let the Zimbabwian people suffer at the hand of a mentally disturbed dictator?

Question

Is that there is no oil so no gains or loss?

Answer 1

You hit the nail on the head. The West has nothing to gain, unlike in Iraq, where it has its hands on lots of new luctrative oil contracts. What a sad world we live in!

Answer 2

Ah wipe yer mouth! Have you ever been there?
I work all over Africa and every countrie has the same **** believe me!
Even Eritrea in the East......no rain for 4 years, everyones on a call to Arms so they cant leave the country.
What about Nigeria, Cameroon?
It has nothing to do with Oil......more to do with internal structures. The Presidents of some of these countries have less power than the Tribal Chief of Chiefs.

Its not cut and Dry. We dont help for the resorses because the powerful locals only give out a small share anyway.

And another thing if we only help when Oils involved why dont we get involved and sort out the kidnappings in Nigeria? It used to be a British Colony after all? Do you know how much Hydrocarbons this countrie produces a year?

I think its to give the world an excuse to increase the Value of a Barrel due to " Hostilities" and keep the real Evil men in the West Fat!

Answer 3

Yes how can they? Presuming of course that he is mentally disturbed. On the other hand, if he simply has a different point of view, that only makes someone insane in the now gone Soviet Union, the area formerly known as Palestine and the present day USA.

Nevertheless the question should be answered. How can the west sit back and allow a country's people to be persecuted? Chechnia, East Timor, apartheid Palestine, apartheid South Africa, Rwanda, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, USSR, Nicaragua, and so many others?

Perhaps it would be helpful to know that the west's primary motivators are not the much advertised: morality, freedom, justice, law, equality, fairness, accountability, charity, democracy, internationalism, etc., These are concepts the west has had problems applying to its own states, and has shown a significant lack of will applying to others.

No, the primary motivators seem to be; public relations, marketing, free trade, claiming to occupy the moral high ground, refusing others' access to the moral high ground, defining the moral high ground, re-defining the moral high ground, deciding what is and is not legal, removing the phrase 'freedom fighter' and 'resistance fighter' from the English language, applying the law selectively, cultural colonisation, economic colonisation, erosion of other's cultures, undermining the value of the other, re-writing history and, the one that covers it all, the big one that influences all others; BLINKERED SELF INTEREST.

This is why Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Afghanistan, and all others that either promise some benefit or pose the slightest threat to the western way are exempt from care and must sleep restlessly under bellicose threats of war and economic arm twisting from the west. Simple western self interest. Hold on a minute, haven't I just described the experience of every non-western nation on earth. Perhaps I could rest my case here, but for the forgotten. They deserve more.

I imagine every forgotton, persecuted people, all over the world, constantly ask themselves how the west can sit back and allow their persecutors to continue their suffering. Seems like the only ones that get noticed are the ones who get fed up of being forgotten and decide to kick up a fuss, like the Palestinian example: A people mass-displaced over 50 years ago, exiled, persecuted, dissappeared and murdered for years and years, while the the state responsible was granted by the west; European trade status and preferential access to European and US markets, funded, protected and treated like an innocent European brother despite their location in the Arab Middle East. UN resolutions coming out of the Palestinians ears, affirming their right to return and yet nobody takes a blind bit of notice. Until one day they get fed up of this and declare an intifada. Now they are called terrorists and condemned for blowing people up.

And all the while US and UK forces are blowing people up in the name of........??? Well not in my name that's for sure, but what is also sure is the definers of 21st century 'terrorism' will never apply the term 'terrorist' to themselves, however well it fits.

That should tell you the psychology of the west and why they sit back in the face of injustice.

Answer 4

I know it's so awful what's happening there. It seems that the only way the world takes notice is when oil is involved. But the truth is if the people of Zimbabwe were white something would be done. Sometimes I think the human race has come a long way other times I think we're still in the dark ages.

Answer 5

How can the world sit back and allow the American people suffer at the hand of a mentally incompetent and disturbed president and his greedy and dangerous vice president? Well, same sort of rules I guess apply.

Answer 6

We had to get rid of our own evil dictator so they have to as well. Why do others view us as bad when we don't step in and solve other peoples problems but when we do help they want us to get out of their country? Why doesn't Zimbabwe take care of their own people and get rid of the mentally disturbed dictator on their own. Stop waiting around for other countries to deal with your issues and do something about it yourself.

Answer 7

I personally don't listen to the western slant on a country that has openly said that they don't give a damn about what America thinks. This country has a way of trying to force its will on those that don't agree with it and has its own agenda that it enforces through the media at times.

Just look at Iraq for example. Strip away the garbage about non existant Weapons of Mass Destruction and an evil dictator and you will realize this country invaded another nation because of an old grudge about "he tried to kill my dad" and blood oil. And they out and out lied about it.

Answer 8

Oh so when we try to help people we are criticized, but when we can't help everyone we are criticized. We're damned if we do, and damned if we don't. Why aren't you criticizing other countries for not helping? Walk out your door, what do you see? Do you see homeless people, racism, gangs, violence, uneducated children? NEWS FLASH...people are suffering all over the world. Unless you're out there donating your time, effort, and money to these causes you really have absolutely no room to talk!!!

Answer 9

The Islamic forces are ruling the country and trying to gain control of the horn of Africa. 400,000 have died and 20,000 children have been taken as sex slaves to these Islamic forces. For some reason the muslims have taken over the world. In every country they get what they want and everyone has to die to make that happen for them.
The USA soldier is told that he has to die to protect these Iraq people from hurting each other. Their lives are not important, the only lives that matter are the muslims.
When are we all going to have to just die and give them the whole world. That is what one said to me that soon that will happen god is giveing them the world and it is now time for that to happen.

Answer 10

We had a bit of criticism in waltzing in on Sadam Hussein and we don't want to overstep the mark here. We, the UK, are not short of oil - where did you get that idea from?