Oh, come on.
No, the ANC was advocating the democratization of a country under the boot of the apartheid regime. South African sanctions had the support of the masses. It was a conscious policy of the popular struggle. In Iraq, the US is not destabilizing Hussein (rhetoric to the contrary), but insuring that Iraq does not return to its previous level as a regional power. Even Hussein's critics in Iraq (when they can be heard) oppose Iraqi sanctions as counter-productive to establishing freedom in Iraq. It's US policy, not a call from freedom fighters, that maintains Iraqi sanctions.
----Original Message Follows---- From: Kevin Quinn <kquinn at cba.bgsu.edu> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Re: Election Crisis and Electoral Reform Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:47:08 -0500
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"?
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