War Street Urinal calls for preemptive strike on - - Zimbabwe
GLOBAL VIEW
By BRET STEPHENS
The Bush Doctrine Is Relevant Again
June 24, 2008; Page A17
Here's a prediction: Zimbabwe's Morgan Tsvangirai will win this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
He would be its worthiest recipient since the prize went to Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi (one of the prize's few worthy recipients, period) in 1991. He deserves it for standing up - politically as well as physically - to Robert Mugabe's goon-squad dictatorship for over a decade; for organizing a democratic opposition and winning an election hugely stacked against him; and for refusing to put his own ambition ahead of his people's well-being when the run-off poll became, as he put it last weekend, a "violent, illegitimate sham."
Here's another prediction: Mr. Tsvangirai's Nobel will have about as much effect on the bloody course of Zimbabwe's politics as Aung San Suu Kyi's has had on Burma's. Effectively, zero.
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By BRET STEPHENS
The Bush Doctrine Is Relevant Again
June 24, 2008; Page A17
Here's a prediction: Zimbabwe's Morgan Tsvangirai will win this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
He would be its worthiest recipient since the prize went to Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi (one of the prize's few worthy recipients, period) in 1991. He deserves it for standing up - politically as well as physically - to Robert Mugabe's goon-squad dictatorship for over a decade; for organizing a democratic opposition and winning an election hugely stacked against him; and for refusing to put his own ambition ahead of his people's well-being when the run-off poll became, as he put it last weekend, a "violent, illegitimate sham."
Here's another prediction: Mr. Tsvangirai's Nobel will have about as much effect on the bloody course of Zimbabwe's politics as Aung San Suu Kyi's has had on Burma's. Effectively, zero.
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