More generally, leftists are not good at preventing or removing
sanctions. American leftists have been unable to lift even the
ridiculous blockade on Cuba, the country many of them still love, and
they couldn't end the sanctions on Iraq either. American pundits
blamed only the Iraqi government for the negative impacts of sanctions
on the Iraqi people, and American leftists did not effectively counter
that. To this day, many Americans think that Washington should have
just continued smart sanctions and contained the Iraqi government.
Americans haven't learned much, except that, thankfully, the Iraq War
taught them that invading a big country costs a lot and kills many
Americans. That doesn't stop them from thinking that sending more
troops to Afghanistan or sanctioning Iran is a good idea.
--
Yoshie
The worst thing about these never-ending series of posts from Yoshie
is that they are written from the perspective of the saved and
directed at the damned. Such sanctimoniousness would defy even the
talents of a Charles Dickens or a Mark Twain to render in a fictional
character. Even the business about the "Persian Prince" seems overly
done as satire.
When you strip away the rhetoric, like the screen from the Wizard of
Oz, all you are left with is a single, isolated former activist in
Ohio whose sole contribution to the American revolution is posting
apologetics for a regime of women-hating torturers.
Pathetic.
