On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Dennis Perrin wrote:
> > http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/sanction/iraq1/2002/paper.htm#8
>
> Fair enough. I'll read and comment in the next few days.
Can't ask for more than that. But I just remembered an alternative option that might be shorter and more pleasant. There is an excellent article in the November Harpers by Joy Gordon called "Cool War: Economic Sanctions as a Weapon of Mass Destruction" that does very a eloquent job of laying out what's wrong with comprehensive economic sanctions. She doesn't spend much time on what a purely military sanctions regime would look like but I think it's not hard to imagine in relief: it would be the same regime, with all its capacities, but completely limited to what she calls the "1051 list:" the list of goods that require notice to UN Weapons inspectors. And it should be clear from the article how much smaller that is than what is now being blocked.
Michael