| The time has come to ask, no tell, our “public servants” that’s time to stop with the economic sanctions against every country where their government refuses to obey the will of our president. Their leaders never go without a single meal and all their desires are fulfilled each waking day. The people, on the other hand, pay dearly for the sanctions imposed. The immoral aspect of this practice is obvious, and in the light of not changing a single thing, we need to “cease and desist” from such practices.
The history of failures is as long as the list of countries we’ve applied sanctions on. Cuba is a good example. Mr. Castro looks pretty good for an arch enemy of the US for over 50 years. Countries and exporters world-wide continue to ship goods into the country. Many of our most successful men smoke cigars from Cuba, knowing they are illegal, but rich men breaking our laws is another rant altogether.
Iraq sanctions didn’t bring down the leadership, only caused the death of untold numbers of women and children, far exceeding the genocide we have Saddam in court for. Saddam gases 5,000-10,000 Kurds, with our chemical weapons it turns out, and our government jumps on their high horses about immorality. We starved a million people to death, over half were children. The sanctions killed 200,000-500,000 children under five (three times the Japanese deaths from two atomic bombs).
Originally adopted in 1945, economic sanctions were touted as a means of maintaining global order. Between its inception through 1989 (44 years) it was imposed twice. Since 1990 (16 years) it has been imposed 12 times. So, from once every 22 years average to almost every year, countries usually with the US in the lead or unilaterally have used it to make a country obey.
The psychological and spiritual degeneration is a war crime. Sanctions represent the opposite of a just war: from wars that only involve soldiers to ones that only involve civilians. How much more angry would America have been if Japan had bombed San Francisco instead of Pearl Harbor, a city instead of a military base.
The American people should be asked when we want a people starved to death. Because it is done in our name, only the American people should have the final decision as to whether we want a nation to hate us for all time. If a country starved my granddaughter to death, I would spend every ounce of energy until I die, killing their soldiers and their families wherever they might be. Do not kill Iranian women and children by starvation, not only is it cowardice, it is evil.
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