How much worse can things get in the former breadbasket of southern Africa? Incompetence and starvation are not black versus white issues, but right versus wrong. The sooner the neighboring countries wake up to the problems caused by Robert Mugabe, the sooner everyone can move on and start rebuilding the country that has been destroyed by Mugabe.
The road west from Harare leads through some of the most fertile land in southern Africa. The December rains are watering the plains and anything planted now should bear a bountiful harvest.
But nothing is being planted. There are no tractors making their way through what should be a sea of winter wheat seedlings.
These fields that once fed an entire region of Africa no longer feed even the country itself.
Through no act of God, Zimbabwe's new year harvest has already failed. The commercial farmers are gone and in their place wasted children scavenge by the roadside for kernels of corn that fall from passing trucks and can be picked out from the asphalt.
The United Nations has found that more than two-thirds of Zimbabweans are living on one meal, or less, per day.
The starvation that has been stalking the country for much of this decade now claims victims every day; the prospect of an unprecedented famine looms next year.
