[Guillermo]

It's real easy to act so tough when you're safe and sound behind your computer, 5,000 miles away from the action.

But of course, it it was *you*, you and your 2 guns would have been blazing away at the hundreds, thousands of thugs gathered outside your doors.

[Basil Duke]

Yes, I suspect the relative lack of resistance from the white farmers was a product of overwhelming numerical inferiority. Granted, from afar it might be a simple matter to envision transforming one's property into an Alamo-type bunker from which to resist the black tide, rifle barrels sticking out of every window and volley fire scything the devils down as at Ulandi. Unfortunately, most of these guys are just as they appear - out of shape, middle-aged farmers. They are NOT soldiers. Many of them have families - families who would no doubt suffer heniously were their men folk to go down as was suggested by an earlier poster - with guns blazing. Mugabe would lead the women and children survivors naked through the streets before burning them alive. The farmers know this. They kept holding out hope that something would turn up to get them out of their fix with a semblence of their old lives. They were denied this, of course, as we're all seeing. But armed resistance to an entire country would have had only one conclusion: the extermination of every white man, woman and child within the reach of the sadists who run that godforsaken country.