Human Rights Watch in Zimbabwe

the title links to the Human Rights Watch report on Mugabe's terror campaign following his election defeat.

Samantha Powers calls for intervention under the "responsibility to protect" doctrine, but this is not on because the "international support" isn't there. No one seriously denies what is going on or who is responsible. It is just that the third world thugs and the people that profit by them in China and Russia (to name only the biggest apologists) don't want to go along. Can't have the precedent set that murdering your own people in mass gives someone an excuse for undermining your sovereignty.

It has been pointed out by many, most recently by Bret Stephens, that this responsibility to protect is a lot like the old "White Man's Burden" of Rudyard Kipling. But Kipling's doctrine was much more realistic. He knew that the reward for doing the right thing was "The blame of those ye better, The hate of those ye guard." The modern do-gooder insists on being loved as well. The international community won't intervene with out the permission of the murderers.