The hidden hand on Mugabe

OP-ED: "Showing Mugabe the Door," by Peter Godwin, New York Times, 3 April 2007, p. A23.

The question, as the author argues, is not how to talk Mugabe out of power, but how to talk New Core South Africa into forcing Mugabe out.

Standing behind both of them, of course, is China.

So how do we get both players happy with a Mugabe-gone outcome? How do we incentivize that structure: the post-Mugabe southern Africa?

You can push or you can pull.

We all know which way requires more effort.