When the state has neither the resources nor the will to intervene

What's particularly chilling is that the last sentence could just as easily apply to New Orleans in the wake of Katrina as it does to Zimbabwe.

clipped from blogs.thetimes.co.za Zimbabwe’s failed Robert Mugabe state is entering its final days and they are going to be bitter, violent and deadly. Yesterday all water supplies were switched off to Harare in the throes of a killer cholera epidemic. People are dying in the streets and the state has neither the resources nor the will to intervene.