Reading this review:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n14/andrew-cockburn/worth-it
by Andrew Cockburn of Joy Gordon's new book on the dozen years of Iraq sanctions, it suddenly struck me half way through (when I read Gates' quote): Israel's current policy against Gaza is almost an exact copy in miniature of the US's 1990s policy against Iraq. The correspondence of details is remarkable.
Michael