It is good to remind people that Jimmy Carters foreign policy resulted in exactly this outcome. The people that opposed that foreign policy predicted this outcome, and they have been entirely vindicated.
If the US had stood with Rhodesia, this could have been prevented.
I told that to an idiot from "Zimbabwe" the other day, and he looked at me dumbfounded.
He had a book titled "DINNER WITH MUGABE: The untold story of a freedom fighter who became a tyrant". I laughed and said the man was never a "freedom fighter", that only a fool would believe that, and that Ian Smith should have annhilated ZANU-PF.
He was taken aback and started stammering, "but..but..".
It was obvious that the white people there were nothing more than credulous morons who were basically food waiting to be eaten, the Eloi to Mugabe's Morlocks.
Three million have left? They bring with them their disease: liberal weakness. They should have been forced to stay and fight, to die if necessary, but fight nonetheless.
Even Mugabe knew that.