But Henry Kisinger (for some reason, I cannot think of how he spells it), put tremendous pressure on South Africa and the Shah of Iran to cut off trade with Rhodesia, and forced Ian Smith to agree to "Majority Rule" by 1980.
That was during the Carter Administration, but the agreement to surrender by that date was forged during Ford's Administration. I remember this very vividly, as it was the reason that I could not vote for Ford. I have no words that are adequate to express my contempt for what was done to Rhodesia on his watch. Remember, these people modeled their Declaration of Independence in part on our own; they had build a veritable paradise in the middle of Africa; they represented a true flowering of Western Culture. And to compound the tragedy, they had a population that was producing perhaps the highest percentage of genius types on the planet--for comparison, six times the rate of the White population of California.
One can never prove, what might have been. But strangling Rhodesia in the 1970s may have been a tragedy almost equivalent to what would have obtained, had classical Greece been destroyed in 440 BC. This was a new nation, about to flower for the benefit of civilization, itself.
William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site
Don't you think it would have been different if Reagan was president?I do.