St. Louis CofCC Blog

The headline says this:

Zimbabwe a disaster, Merkel tells South Africa’s Mbeki

But then the first few paragraphs say this:

PRETORIA (AFP) - Robert Mugabe is presiding over a disaster in Zimbabwe but should still be entitled to attend a forthcoming Europe-Africa summit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday.

Summing up talks in Pretoria with President Thabo Mbeki, who is a mediator between Zimbabwe’s opposition and President Mugabe’s ruling party, Merkel said she had made clear her disquiet about the situation across South Africa’s northern border.

“The situation is a very difficult one. It’s a disastrous one, which I very clearly stated in our conversation,” the German leader told a press conference with Mbeki during her first sub-Saharan Africa tour.

She declined to back calls for Mugabe to be barred from a summit between African Union and European Union leaders in Lisbon in December, which British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has threatened to boycott if the Zimbabwean head of state attends.

Remember, the EU-wide travel ban against Mugabe and his chief regime lieutenants is supposedly the EU’s great punishment for his anti-white near-genocidal and dispossessionist policies for his country. If Merkel, a representative of Germany’s center-right political party, can’t even bring herself to enforce that putrid and laughable “punishment,” then she might as well praise Mugabe, because she is demonstrating herself to be a fangless snake. Does she actually think that Mugabe is afraid of her verbal condemnation?

And what’s with this business of her talking with President Mbeki of South Africa about the disaster that is Zimbabwe? Like South Africa itself is paradise? South Africa is about one decade behind Zimbabwe in its own degeneration and anti-white dispossession.