July 14, 2004
GENOCIDE AS AN INSTRUMENT OF INTERNATIONAL LAW:
Containing Iraq: Sanctions Worked (George A. Lopez and David Cortright, July/August 2004, Foreign Affairs)
[T]he much-maligned UN-enforced sanctions regime actually worked.
Iraqi child death rates soar: Hospitals say they are short of even the most basic medicines (BBC, 8/13/99)
Iraqi children under five are dying at more than twice the rate they were 10 years ago, a report by the United Nations' children's fund says. [...]In what it describes as an "ongoing humanitarian emergency", it shows a dramatic rise in child mortality rates in central and southern Iraq - areas controlled by Baghdad.
Unicef estimates that over the last 10 years at least 500,000 child deaths could have been prevented. [...]
Unicef says the sanctions may have been intended by the international community to promote peace and security, but they should not harm children.
It's official: the Left no longer has a soul. Posted by Orrin Judd at July 14, 2004 3:12 PM
Orrin:
"[T]he much-maligned UN-enforced sanctions regime actually worked."
I don't disagree with your conclusion, but must point out that, to paraphrase a famous liberal, it depends on what the meaning of 'worked' is. The sanctions provided employment, bribes, and influence for many U.N. personnel, NGO's, and other hangers-on, and lucrative contracts for the companies associated with them.
And you just realized that on July 14th 2004?
Posted by: Peter B at July 14, 2004 7:21 PMWell, as it turns out, the sanctions worked better than we thought. They were unsustainable, costly and cruel, but they worked. Fortunately, we came to our senses, took pity on the Iraqis and invaded.
Posted by: David Cohen at July 15, 2004 7:54 AM