As the Zimbabwe problem continues to worsen the rights and wrongs of outside intervention are coming to the fore. More and more people are calling for governments around the world to intervene in what is fast become a desperate situation with more opposition party supporters arrested over the last couple of days. Is Robert Mugabe set to grab power back from the people once again?

It seems that each and every government around the world had a view and opinion of the situation as the voting approached but now that it is over the silence from many quarters is deafening. The situation is starting to slide out of control again, but the main question is, do we actually have the power and the right to interfere with the internal wranglings of Zimbabwe?

Many governments around the world set a precedent for themselves when they all jumped on the band wagon to attack Iraq and affectively drop in an occupying force. While there were many good reasons to take up the plight of the Iraqi people, there were possibly just as many reasons for the West not to become involved. So why is Zimbabwe any different?

Many people see the problems of Zimbabwe as localised and something which is unlikely to spread to neighbouring countries. If this is the case then the leaders of West have little to fear directly hence the reason why so many are ?talking the talk but not walking the walk?. Have you heard the US government speak out about the troubles? Have you heard fellow African leaders criticise Robert Mugabe in public?

The truth is that the West had no more right to invade Iraq as it does to become involved with Zimbabwe, but Zimbabwe is less likely to impact directly on the Western world and this is probably the reason why military action is unlikely to happen. Now if they found oil in Zimbabwe, well that might be a different story……..