And in Tsvangirai, the West chose well; with a limited intellect he was to prove to be putty in the hands of the puppet masters. The expectation was that with an economy in free fall, voters would turn against Mugabe. The plan was perfect; the snag was in its execution. Of critical significance, the West arrogantly flouted the fact that Tsvangirai was their man. For an Afrikan electorate with memories of a brutal white minority rule still fresh, it was political suicide.
This is the reason why in all the four presidential and parliamentary elections held since the plan was hatched, Tsvangirai failed to unseat Mugabe. Since MDC was not rooted in the aspirations of Afrikans, it could not survive the repeated electoral losses as a united party. Leadership squabbles over the sharing out of donations led to the party splitting into two separate factions, to the utter dismay of their Western masters. The split of MDC marked an end to the West's attempt to topple Mugabe through the ballot box. With MDC in disarray, politically, Tsvangirai is a spent force, but too much had already been invested in him by the West to just let him go; so he has to be used somehow. Plan B was then hatched: to make Zimbabwe ungovernable so that the West can invade Zimbabwe on the pretext that it is restoring peace and stability under the ambit of the United Nations.
