Zimbabwe: When Will The Regime End?

[ottermax]

The presidential term of Robert Mugabe will end officially in 2014 (unless the constitution changes). However this question refers to the year when Zimbabwe is actually democratic. I'm sure that Mugabe will die in the near future, but will that result in democracy or will another ZANU-PF leader come in and continue the torture of Zimbabwe for another generation?

Plus, give your ideas of how exactly Zimbabwe becomes a democracy again.

[Sbane]

I dont think democracy will occur in zimbabwe in the near future.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

I dont think democracy will occur in zimbabwe in the near future.

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[dead0man]

It seems it's going to come down to their neighbors and how much they care...and they don't seem to care all that much.  The West won't stop complaining and bitching over the water cooler and the internet, but don't look for us to help anytime soon.  We're wrong no matter what we do and apathy is easier than action so we'll make our threads on the internet and we'll twiddle thumbs but we won't act.  We don't look like the people dying, thus it doesn't look as good on the television.  All of us have lived our whole life watching brown people die on the evening news, this is nothing new and the negatives for acting far outweigh the positives, at least as far as the west is concerned.

Some of us feel guilty about the mess, but most of us are just looking for the right people to blame and Mugabe is much to easy of a target (plus he's the wrong color to hate and he's anti-America, a plus in many people's minds).  I'll wait for somebody else to blame the usual suspects.

[King]

We are still waiting on Castro in Cuba.  2012 or later is an easy answer unless Zimbabwe becomes one of Bush's "state sponsor of terra'."

[ottermax]

We are still waiting on Castro in Cuba.  2012 or later is an easy answer unless Zimbabwe becomes one of Bush's "state sponsor of terra'."

no oil unfortunately...

China might be democratic before Cuba, Iran, or Zimbabwe.