JAG, why do you reflexively jump from a topic about Mugabe and Zimbabwe to implicit criticism of America's misadventure in Iraq? Are you fixated, stuck in a rut, obsessed or monomaniacal? For this level of fixed malevolence, you would think America was a hot chick who turned you down in front of your buddies.

As for Mugabe's hand-crafted hellhole, it beyond sad. It's like a combination of Stalin's Five Year Plan and the Khmer Rouge's Year Zero "Everybody Dies" adventure.

Real reporters are banned, so almost all the good info coming out is from bloggers. Wave of the future, I suppose.