John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY DANIEL LARISO IN CHECKPOINT ASIA
“Empire’s Sanctions Are Now Driving Venezuela Toward Famine
“The country grows only a third of its food, and oil sanctions will cost it 94 percent of what it spent on imports last year”
It's terrible, but of course it is nothing new for America.
It hurts and kills women and children in a number of places, by one means or another. Sanctions always hurt the defenseless. That's just how they work.
Yemen. Syria. Iran. Libya. Somalia. Gaza (where it does nothing to rein-in the vicious settlers of its Mideast colony).
I'm sure the child victims of massive American bombing in Vietnam and in North Korea numbered in the tens of thousands.
And recall the ghastly horror of Iraq in the period after the First Gulf War and before the final invasion.
There were Madeleine Albright's unforgettable Nazi-like words in a television interview when asked about the thousands of kids dying in Iraq under an extreme American embargo, "We think it's worth it."
You know, she was awarded the "Presidential Medal of Freedom" for her distinguished efforts at the State Department, like Vice president Joe Biden, whose big achievement was getting America's industrial-scale extrajudicial killing program going.
"Freedom" has a genuinely Orwellian meaning in the United States.
