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Originally posted by Spanky
The difference with South Africa is that no one had any sympathy for the Whites in that country. The entire world was forcing them to capitulate. In addition, the Whites were a total minority everywhere and pretty much had to capitulate.
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The Reagan Admin, Jesse Helms, and many others had a great deal of sympathy for the staunchly anti-Communist apartheid regime. And for its proxy armies and allies in Mozambique, Angola, Namibia, and Zaire, among other places.
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It would have been only similar if the whites in South Africa had expelled the blacks from a certain area of the country and encouraged white people from all over the world to emigrate to that part of the country but didn't let the blacks back in.
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Other than the "encourage white people from all over the world" part, they did just this. Blacks were expelled and excluded from cities, suburbs, and prime farmland. That's why the "homelands" and the massive slums of Soweto were developed.
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Therefore, the area that the whites controlled would have a massive majority of white people. In addition, they would have had to let the blacks in that part of the country that was controlled by the whites have full voting rights and liberties (but of course they would only be twenty percent of the population). Then the black people who had been expelled kept attacking the white country (using suicide bombers, killing innocent people and hijacking planes around the world) so the White county had to occupty parts of South Africa left to the blacks for their own self defense. Then the black people that had been forced out and lived in the occupied zones would have to constanly be attacking the white part and blowing up civilian planes and innocent people around the world. Of course it would also be helpful if two billion people in the world subscribed to a holy book that said that South Africa belonged to the whites.
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The "holy book" distinction is very much on point.
But you seem to forget that the ANC (and the PAC) did a whole lot that would have gotten them branded 'terrorist organizations' today -- and, if I remember correctly, got them called that, or something similar, back in the day. Remember the furor over "necklacing"? And the ANC blew up, or tried to blow up, any number of police stations, restaurants that security forces frequented, oil-from-coal plants, etc.
Again, the "holy book" issue, on the one hand, and the world sympathy for the Jewish people on the other, seem to me to be the essential issues.
