DAVE KOPEL WRITES that the big dailies are ignoring Zimbabwe’s genocide. And Andrew Stuttaford notes at The Corner that reports of Powell being heckled at the Johannesburg summit fail to mention that he was heckled in response to his criticism of Mugabe’s forced-starvation policies. According to this report, “Dissent filled the hall when Mr Powell criticised the government of Zimbabwe for exacerbating the food crisis in that country and pushing ‘millions of people to the brink of starvation.'”

As Stuttaford puts it: “Poor Colin Powell. No one had told him that he was addressing a gathering of fascists.”