Okay, that’s probably not the phrase to use, but Bob has backed away from attending tomorrow’s SADC summit – although the rent-a-mob seems to be going there without him.  Tsvangirai will be there, by invitation, although if the plan was to have him and Mugabe work out a deal under SADC auspices, that now doesn’t look likely.  One hopes the snub will provoke a stronger response than SADC may have given if he’d been there.