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An additional thought is that it would be far better for this shipment, and for Mugabe's regime, to fail in a very public fashion and for that downfall to be brought about by organisations such as human rights activists and worker's unions with a conscience for the same reasons that I'm against suppressing the right of extreme organisations in the UK to demonstrate on the streets. If Oswald Mosely's brown shirts had been banned from marching, they never would have been put down quiet as hard as they were. They might, in fact, have prospered under the weight of the ban as martyrs, lurking under their mouldy stones, breeding on resentment and a sense of injustice which would only lend weight to their argument. If someone's basic argument is flawed, the last thing you want to do is shut them up, or people will naturally begin to think that maybe their argument isn't so flawed and that you're afraid of it. No, let the brown shirts of the world scream their drivel from the rooftops... then everyone can see just what clowns they really are and ignore them as appropriate, or smack them over the head with a brick, as they like. That's democracy ;-)

I'd rather the arms shipment was a very public failure brought about by legal means and argued by sane, rational voices. No stealthy attacks. Did the French do themselves any favours when they mined the Rainbow Warrior? Like hell. It would be, in today's parlance, a public relations nightmare. It's exactly the same reason why the Japanese haven't sunk the Greenpeace ships that follow them around the Antarctic every year, and I don't doubt for a split second that certain parties on the Japanese side would love to blow them out of the water!