Excuse me???

[patgund]

Isn't this like, oh, I dunno, an ACT OF WAR???

Diplomat convoy held in Zimbabwe

"Mr McGee told the BBC that five US embassy officials, two local staff, and four officials from the UK High Commission had been in Bindura, 80km (50 miles) north of Harare, when they were stopped by police.

"I think that it gives us a window into the lives of ordinary Zimbabweans, because this sort of intimidation is something that is suffered daily

When they refused to go to a local police station and drove away, they were chased, he said. Later at a roadblock nearby, police slashed their tyres.

The ambassador said so-called war veterans allied to the government had tried to forcibly remove the diplomats from the vehicles and, when they refused, had stolen a camera and a satellite telephone.

"The war veterans threatened to burn the vehicles with the people inside unless they removed themselves from the vehicle," he said.

A Zimbabwean driver working with an US embassy security official was also beaten up by the group, he added."

Comments

[electorprince.livejournal.com]

I wish we'd be that rational, but given our past acceptances of our embassies being open targets for every anti-American nation on the planet without response, I won't put my hopes on us burning Zimbabwe into ashes over this. We are entirely too pussified to devastate a major city for every one of our diplomats that's ever been accosted, shot at, or kidnapped.

[tepintzin.livejournal.com]

It's an act of war, but even if anyone had the inclination to retaliate (see E-Prince's comment above) the military is chasing wild geese elsewhere.