They just keep retelling themselves
Most Redstaters are aware, if only via Pejman’s valiant efforts, of the dire situation in Zimbabwe, where thuggery and socialist economics have combined to make the once-strong national currency essentially worthless.
The media will eventually get around to a storm about Zimbabwe. The pleas to intervene will rise from the usual quarters, those who insist that we intervene only when we have nothing to gain. We went to Iraq for oil, they will say, so we should go to Zimbabwe, to fix our karma or something.
I urge doing nothing.
I’m reminded of a joke I heard from a fellow Marine about a certain medical condition, a joke I will now ruin for you by revealing the site-appropriate punch line: “No need to amputate — arm fall off by itself.”
What remains of reason in our foreign policy ought to urge nonintervention here. We can’t fix Zimbabwe. If somehow we were to convince President Mugabe to step aside, the military would simply appoint another figurehead, or would take direct control of the country. While we could probably rout the Grand Army of Zimbabwe in a couple of days with a squad or two of Marines, the resulting power vacuum would be filled by some unpredictable force over which we have no control.
In other words, our intervention will do nothing that not interventing can do without loss of American blood, gold, or prestige.
And if you thought it was wrong to go into Iraq, it is all the more wrong to do so in Zimbabwe.
We must defeat the Islamishists. We need not defeat the Inflationists, who are in the process of defeating themselves.
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