John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN RUSSIA INSIDER
“Economic Sanctions: Washington's Best Tool to Control the World”
“The lessons taught by nearly 70 years of American economic isolation against Cuba are a prime example; while the sanctions have been painful, they resulted in a nation that has maintained its resolve in the face of economic difficulties and a leader that outlived and out ruled the reigns of U.S. Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton and Bush II."
How very true.
Of course, an important aspect of sanctions is that they always hurt the little people, the ordinary citizens of a country, people who are guilty of nothing even if you believe their leaders are.
That makes sanctions no different than American bombing.
America’s heavy use of bombing has shifted the impact of its wars from soldiers to civilians.
It mainly kills civilians in every theater of war.
