Rhodesia, Propaganda, and an Internet Flame war

[bayonetbrant]

and a holy shitstorm of controversy being kicked up at SWJ, after they ran an article from a quasi-literate talking head
http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/drawing-lessons-from-zimbabwes-war-of-liberation
that basically claims that in an unsurgency, "freedom violence" is legitimate use of force (and protected under some 1970s-era mods to the Geneva Convention) while virtually *any* action the gov't takes is inherently illegitimate as it involves keeping freedom seekers from finding their freedom.

The Rhodies on SWJ are going ape-shit over the fact that this is even being published there, as it totally comes across as post-overthrow rationalizing of atrocities on the part of Mugabe's henchmen

[BanzaiCat]

Wow. That's quite a discussion going on there.

The first thing that popped into my head, though, was "Mum...Mum...why is Rhodesia called Rhodesia?"

Sorry for the derail. There's a lot of "Moderator intervention and edited" notations throughout the comments...makes me wonder what I am missing, if anything of import.

[bayonetbrant]

you missed a lot of people calling each other war criminals