>>6304177Indeed. In retrospect it's always easy to be right but at the time much harder. He obviously loved Rhodesia, he was up against an unholy alliance of Britain, USA, USSR and China all siding with terrorists murdering innocent Rhodesians. Shemefully the South Africans thought that abandoning the Rhodesians would mean the west would be nicer to them (see how that worked out!)
But you're right, Smith tried his best and decided in that moment that trying to maintain peace was a better way to go having had to fight a non-stop war for years.
