come on - would it honestly surprise you? frankly, we're kinda surprised someone in the state department hasn't taken him out just to stop the questions about what we're going to do about him.
in case you're tuning in late, mugabe decided that an election that he lost didn't count, and ordered the killing of folks that voted for or supported the opposing candidate.
the reason people didn't vote for him the first time: he took a country that had thriving agriculture, seized all of the farms, gave them to his friends and family (who subsequently squandered most of them), and produced a starving population in record time. now, he refuses to acknowledge any election that doesn't declare him a winner.
sounds a bit like another african despot we loved to hate: idi amin. whatever happened to him? can we arrange the same for mugabe, please?
