Sanctions are a "damned if you do damned if you don't" method of involving the U.S. in the affairs of other countries. The U.S. may have a security interest ( or a humanitarian one) that requires levying sanctions but there will always be innocent civilians who suffer because of them. It's similar to military action that inevitably cause…
Sanctions are a "damned if you do damned if you don't" method of involving the U.S. in the affairs of other countries. The U.S. may have a security interest ( or a humanitarian one) that requires levying sanctions but there will always be innocent civilians who suffer because of them. It's similar to military action that inevitably causes collateral damage with the death of innocents. Treading lightly is probably the best policy in dealing with international relations because you never know when the local population will turn on the U.S. for interfering in their affairs. Sanctions may have worked in South Africa but that was a long time ago and there was a government in power that, while initially zealous in wanting to maintain the status quo, wasn't as demented and depraved as the "governments" in Syria or North Korea. There are no easy answers and on a daily basis we see how cruel and depressing the world can be and how limited more free peoples are in making the world a better place.
Sanctions are a "damned if you do damned if you don't" method of involving the U.S. in the affairs of other countries. The U.S. may have a security interest ( or a humanitarian one) that requires levying sanctions but there will always be innocent civilians who suffer because of them. It's similar to military action that inevitably causes collateral damage with the death of innocents. Treading lightly is probably the best policy in dealing with international relations because you never know when the local population will turn on the U.S. for interfering in their affairs. Sanctions may have worked in South Africa but that was a long time ago and there was a government in power that, while initially zealous in wanting to maintain the status quo, wasn't as demented and depraved as the "governments" in Syria or North Korea. There are no easy answers and on a daily basis we see how cruel and depressing the world can be and how limited more free peoples are in making the world a better place.
Ah. The white supremacist, openly racist government of South Africa was not so bad after all. I see. Maybe it should have been left in power.