There is a curious affinity between your commentary on the aftermath of the Irish no in the referendum on the European Union’s Lisbon treaty (“The Unanimity Problem,” June 28, 2008) and your main leader on the aftermath of the presidential elections in Zimbabwe (“How to Get Him Out”). Both in the Union and in Zimbabwe people have only the right to say yes to choices already made in their name. The people of Zimbabwe are somewhat ahead, though, for they have a reasonably good chance of ridding themselves of Robert Mugabe within a few years. He is eighty-four, after all. The people of the Union would have quite a headache deciding whom to get rid of before things could even start getting better.