RE: BREAKING:Italy charges Egyptian security agency officials over murder of Giulio R.
December 13, 2020 at 10:05 am
(This post was last modified: December 13, 2020 at 10:12 am by The Grand Nudger.)
While it is both rational and completely necessary to acknowledge and to expect that sanctions would cause what they have caused, not just in Iran, but literally anywhere else we've ever applied them.
If the goal is to reduce human misery, increasing human misery will not accomplish that. If the goal is regime change, human misery absolutely will accomplish that - to whatever end. If we wanted to see the oppressed peoples of so and so rise up to kill their government...you know that we don't need sanctions for that. We're subject matter experts.
If that's what you want to see, if that's the focal point of this fantasy about what sanctions would do, say so. Just flat out say that you would very much like to see the west engineer a set of circumstances in which the leaders of this or that nation are drug out into the street and dismembered, or whatever.
If the goal is to reduce human misery, increasing human misery will not accomplish that. If the goal is regime change, human misery absolutely will accomplish that - to whatever end. If we wanted to see the oppressed peoples of so and so rise up to kill their government...you know that we don't need sanctions for that. We're subject matter experts.
If that's what you want to see, if that's the focal point of this fantasy about what sanctions would do, say so. Just flat out say that you would very much like to see the west engineer a set of circumstances in which the leaders of this or that nation are drug out into the street and dismembered, or whatever.
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