How to Put the Heat on Mugabe

BY PAUL WOLFOWITZ

On Sunday, Morgan Tsvangirai – the leader of Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, and the victor in the first round of that country's presidential election in March – announced that his party would not participate in the so-called runoff election scheduled for June 27.

"We can't ask the people to cast their vote when that vote will cost their lives. We will no longer participate in this violent sham of an election," Mr. Tsvangirai said. "Mugabe has declared war, and we will not be part of that war."

This must have been a painful decision. It ...