Regime Change in Zimbabwe?

How thrilling: the Obama administration is not even a month old and it is already flirting in some capacity with regime change, that terrible taboo among liberals. The Times of London reports President Obama is seeking to refer the case to the UN Security Council. I think diplomatic solutions are no longer feasible, especially after Robert Mugabe's recent declaration, "Zimbabwe is mine." Last month a priest who runs a clinic in rural Zimbabwe told the Times,

People are starving here. The extent of the suffering has reached Auschwitz proportions. ... It’s a silent tsunami. They die so quietly. They don’t demonstrate or cry out or stand up. They just die.

I prefer the position of John Sentamu, the Uganda-born Archbishop of York and Primate of England, who wrote in December:

As a country cries out for justice, we can no longer be inactive to their call. Mugabe and his henchmen must now take their rightful place in the Hague and answer for their actions. The time to remove them from power has come.

This sentiment has been endorsed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu ("He has really turned into a kind of Frankenstein for his people. ... I just hope I mean that we don't wait until it is too late.") and Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga:

The crisis in Zimbabwe has now reached a point where further lack of action by the African Union and the international community will constitute nothing less than a crime against humanity. ... If no troops are available, then the AU must allow the U.N. to send its forces into Zimbabwe with immediate effect, to take over control of the country and ensure urgent humanitarian assistance to the people dying of cholera and starvation.