The lives of hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans were sacrificed on the altar of political correctness. If Mugabe had not been African, and if Zimbabwe had oil, regime change would have been effected several decades ago. The usual fellow travelers and useful idiots in the West didn't hold Mugabe to account for his atrocities because he was a fellow leftist. Like his son, Trudeau the Elder was a friend and admirer of dictators and despots as long as they were left-wing and hated the West.