Sorry for the lack of posting, but I have had little to say and was taking a break. However, you need to make sure you read Krauthammer’s take on the Iraq Sanctions:
But if the State Department sentimentalists who worship at the shrine of the United Nations insist on a pilgrimage to Turtle Bay, we should go to the Security Council and submit a one-line resolution: “Whereas the sanctions were imposed on the regime of Saddam Hussein; whereas that regime is no more; whereas sanctions are now needlessly preventing Iraq’s economic recovery; the sanctions are hereby abolished.”
No “modalities.” No negotiations. No deals. Dare France and Russia to veto.
This is why he gets paid and I beg for donations.
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Yeah, I had a hard time with that column, simply because as a liberal there is something deep inside me that shrieks in horrified protest when I find myself agreeing with Charles Fucking Krauthammer.
It doesn’t really matter where you sit on the question of should there/should there not have been a war to topple Hussein; he’s gone. The sanctions serve no purpose. They should end. There is no credible argument for the other perspective. The Hitler-Saddam equivalency is useful in at least this regard – I doubt the people holding fuel and armaments IOUs from Hitler got a lot of respect from the victors in 1945.