Define the Word "Worked"
A little late for a fisking, perhaps, but I felt compelled to note this entry from Daily Kos on Iraqi sanctions. Here's a short quote:
Markos Moulitsas - February 14th, 2005 That's one of the tragedies of this senseless-war (out of so, so many) -- the UN sanctions actually worked. Watch the wingers and their enablers in the corporate media try to obfuscate that point.
Kos quotes David Kay to confirm the idea that Iraq wasn't making much progress in developing weapons and, from this, he draws the conclusion that the sanctions were "working," though you'd have to use a rather narrow definition of the word to make that claim.
Consider, for example, that the sanctions clearly hurt the Iraqi people, and that the UN's attempt to compensate for this, the scandal-ridden Oil-For-Food program, did little to help, and much to enrich Saddam. Toss in the fact that he wasn't shy about offering lump sums to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers, and sanctions were indirectly funding terrorism.
And what of Osama bin Laden's 1998 fatwa wherein he urges jihad against Americans and cites the "Americans' continuing aggression against the Iraqi people" and the "protracted blockade" imposed on Iraq among his reasons?
A solution which causes a slew of other (sometimes worse) problems is not one which has genuinely "worked."
» February 22nd, 2005
posted @ 11:37 AM in Iraq
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