Is Zimbabwe on the brink of a civil war? Has the military engaged in a secret coup? Is Zim a police state? (To this last, at least, we say: “yes.”)
The sad state of affairs is such that these questions are not only viable, they are necessary. Even with the United States putting the sort of quasi-pressure on Zim that only the US tends to apply when it comes to African affairs with which it could not possibly be less engaged, the reality is that the Zim stalemate continues, and I cannot imagine a scenario whereby that stalemate bodes well for the MDC opposition. Time is on Robert Mugabe's side. And he knows as much.
