[lbo-talk] Anti-war campaigners backed economic sanctions

Michael Pugliese michael.098762001 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 19 13:34:00 PST 2006


From the Max Elbaum piece i sent>... The National Campaign for Peace in the Middle East was formed in September by a broad range of peace and anti-intervention organizations, Middle East groups, community and student organizations and prominent figures from the Rainbow Coalition and various left tendencies. The National Campaign, after considerable debate, voted to include condemnation of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in its perspective; it also left room for a wide variety of views on the validity of economic sanctions against Iraq, the role of the U.N., etc.

My memory is that the National Campaign for Middle East Peace called for targetted sanctions on the highest officials of the Ba'ath regime aka "smart sanctions" like David Cortright called for.

http://www.google.com/search?q=smart+sanctions+cortright (many articles for and against there in the Google hits, from The Nation, Foreign Affairs, etc.)

Cortright, authored a book on GI Resistance and draft resistance in the mid-70's published by Doubleday, that the ISO has re-issued w/a preface by Howard Zinn.



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