Mugabe's Madness. And, What's That Headline Again?

But really, Mugabe. Eish.

One has to wonder what's going on in that head of his. What can he be gaining from clinging to power to this ridiculous, insane, mindboggling extent?

And what does he see when he looks at the broken and battered and bruised and ailing Zimbabwe that is and compares it with the promising Zimbabwe that was some fifteen odd years ago?

How can he hold his head high when he's leader of a country where a loaf of bread costs 3 billion dollars, an individual can withdraw a maximum of 25 billion dollars a day, and in order to do so, she has to queue for upto 3 hours?

On the offchance that Mugabe allows someone who's reading this blog an exclusive interview with him some time soon (you never know, be prepared, and all that other jazz), here are some questions I'd like you to ask him, on my behalf:

Ask him about the people he says he's standing up for against the imperialist white man and what his 'standing up' is costing them and whether he's asked them lately whether they want him to stand up for them and what they said.

Ask him whether, when he closes his eyes and thinks about all that Zimbabwe is capable of becoming and then he opens them and takes a close hard look at what Zimbabwe is today, his heart swells with pride.

Ask him whether he is absocomplelutely mad. Or, scratch that. I know the answer to that one.

(Seriously, Go Hang? Is that it?)

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I was surfing the net just now, looking for the latest news on how the African Union is dealing with the Mugabe question when I came across a most amusing title to a story on Mugabe. The International Herald Tribune has an article titled: "Mugabe Rejects Calls For His Ouster" Well, oh, ok. As opposed to that other thing that Mugabe might have done which is gleefully welcome his ouster?