Who is "blaming the US"?????? C'mon Pooka--if that is how you interpreted my original post, then you were sadly mistaken.

In the past decade, the US' record in dealing with just these sorts of human rights crises in Africa has been abysmal. I am not naive enough to think the Bush administration will improve upon the Clinton administration's record. Call me cynical, if you will, but I do know the history of my own nation in this regard.

I called attention to the article, because of the ways Mugabe is trying to escalate the situation diplomatically, to thumb his nose at the West who has long known his depraved human rights record. Right now, the US isn't in a position, much less a mindset, to intervene and commit troops to see the food aid delivered. Unfortunately, nor is the UN, which seems to have reached it's limit in a practical sense, to intervene in these types of crises, because of the lack of commitment by the US to pay it's dues, continue with it's commitments
to UN institutions, etc.

It is a very complex problem, much more pressing than the war with Iraq, which is what Britain and the US are focused on almost exclusively right now. That was why I posted it. But apparently you'd prefer we just sweep the story right back under the rug where you feel it belongs?