We are into the second month after elections. As it seems, we are settled for the idea that Zanu PF is back in power and MDCs are back to where they belonged.
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Expectations have shifted. Will Zanu PF deliver what they failed to deliver in the past 33 years? Well, that question can only be answered after they have served their term.
For now, the only option is to watch, including those that are not at peace with the status quo. Democracy is a game of numbers and Zanu PF got it right this time. Maybe it is time to let peace prevail.
The recent Kenyan terrorist attack showed once again that this world is in a battle with itself.
It is an angry world. It is a world filled with so much angst and tension and needs catharsis. It is a world where everyone is right and yet everyone is wrong. No one agrees with anyone and disagreeing is the order of the day.
It is a world where peace and freedom are secured through shedding blood. Innocent human blood has become the ink used to send message across to foes. It is a sad world.
Language and dialogue have lost meanings. Power and fear have become the defining factor. We are living in a world of bullies who seek their own peace by creating havoc on others.
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Perhaps, one of the reasons we are not headed towards Third World War is because domestic tensions are simmering more than in the global arena.
No one can afford a global war in a world where domestic affairs are at boiling point. Whatever way one looks at it, it is the people who are paying the price with their lives and their blood. It is fast becoming a devious world.
After the Kenya terrorist attack, one major bank in the UK is proposing to cut money transfers to Somalia arguing that the money is funding terrorism activities. Somalis send over $1,3 billion a year to support their hunger stricken relatives in Somalia per year. This is more than what Somalia receives in aid.
Banks are caught between a moral and humanitarian imperative. To allow Somalis in the Diaspora to send money to save lives of millions starving Somalis knowing that through trade transactions the money will end up in wrong hands or to cut the lifelines for innocent and vulnerable Somalis in the interest of saving world peace?
It is a tough call, as there is equally no peace when people are dying of hunger. There is no peace either when such money ends up funding the bombing of innocent shoppers at a Nairobi Mall.
When we thought the Middle East crisis was taking a new dimension, opening a new ideological battle ground pitting the Russia and the US, the US government partially shut down operations on October 1 following the Republicans’ refusal to approve a budget arguing that they can only do so if the Obama health care was stripped from the budget.
Republicans control the House of Representatives and is made up of conservatives and the European Union is feeling the effects of the shutdown.
Imagine how global media would have feasted on the government shutdown if it were another country not the US? Again, Middle East is still on fire with millions of people displaced from their homes and in urgent need of live-saving assistance.
Before the American standoff, the Damascus story had taken a completely new dimension, shifting from peace talks to disagreements on pegging deadlines on chemical weapons.
So the US finds itself entangled in both domestic and international standoffs.
First, they need to convince the Republicans that a health nation is a productive nation and that it is in their interest for everyone to access affordable medical care.
That should be easy for anyone to comprehend in a world where the mantra of healthcare for all is common place, but alas, some civil servants will have to go without a salary this month because the Republicans will not have any of those affordable health stories.
On the international scene the US faces a bigger moral challenge of balancing between pursuing peace in Damascus without infringing international law.
Following the discovery of use of chemical weapons, the US threatened to strike Damascus. Of all leaders in the world, it was Putin the Russian President who reminded Obama of the need to respect international laws, that such action would lead to more bloodshed and that international institutions need to be protected from the fate that befell the League of Nations.
While Putin’s wise counsel sounds legally and politically correct but it falls short of addressing the fundamental question of stopping a war that has cost so many lives and rendered millions of people vulnerable beyond measure.
