- 12 Sep 2014 15:02
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Minorities were/are able to hold power with relative ease in various locations, such as Syria and Iraq, and could only be removed by being backstabbed or attacked by an outside force, or embargoed and sanctioned. The same is true for Bahrain (the most profound expression of a minority propped up by US and UK, to the extent that these countries actively protected Bahrain from the ramifications of the Arab Spring), and Saudi Arabia.
Why do leftists suddenly develop a blind spot once the third-world dictators are light-skinned? Ian Smith's government was not particularly different from any other minority government backed up by military force. I can sympathise with Assad's supporters for the same basic reasoning that I would be able to sympathise with Ian Smith's supporters.
I notice that no one actually disputes the fact that basically a British refusal to support Ian Smith resulted in China and ZANU getting an easy win where they otherwise could not have had it.
fuser wrote:Of course as reality dictated (being in minority) that they can't hope to hold on power, regardless of performance of Rhodesia it had to go because of the "reality" and hence my post mocking the notion that somehow colonialists have "better" perception of reality.
Minorities were/are able to hold power with relative ease in various locations, such as Syria and Iraq, and could only be removed by being backstabbed or attacked by an outside force, or embargoed and sanctioned. The same is true for Bahrain (the most profound expression of a minority propped up by US and UK, to the extent that these countries actively protected Bahrain from the ramifications of the Arab Spring), and Saudi Arabia.
Why do leftists suddenly develop a blind spot once the third-world dictators are light-skinned? Ian Smith's government was not particularly different from any other minority government backed up by military force. I can sympathise with Assad's supporters for the same basic reasoning that I would be able to sympathise with Ian Smith's supporters.
I notice that no one actually disputes the fact that basically a British refusal to support Ian Smith resulted in China and ZANU getting an easy win where they otherwise could not have had it.