Election Crisis and Electoral Reform

[Kevin Quinn]

At 02:54 PM 11/21/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Kevin Quinn wrote:
>
>>Please stop this nonsense: these children are dying because Hussein won't
>>import the medicines they need.
>
>So you're taking a position to the right of the Council on Foreign 
>Relations, which published this article in the May/June 1999 issue of 
>Foreign Affairs?
>
>>SANCTIONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION John Mueller and Karl Mueller
>>
>>As Cold War threats have diminished, so-called weapons of mass 
>>destruction -- nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and ballistic 
>>missiles -- have become the new international bugbears. The irony is that 
>>the harm caused by these weapons pales in comparison to the havoc wreaked 
>>by a much more popular tool: economic sanctions. Tally up the casualties 
>>caused by rogue states, terrorists, and unconventional weapons, and the 
>>number is surprisingly small. The same cannot be said for deaths 
>>inflicted by international sanctions. The math is sobering and should 
>>lead the United States to reconsider its current policy of strangling Iraq.

I'm wondering how many of you who have anathematized the sanctions against 
Iraq supported sanctions against South Africa. The ANC called for them: 
were they advocating " mass murder"?