Israel: Tough shoes to walk in.
I can’t believe this guy actually had to explain WHY it’s a bad thing that Iran gets a nuclear weapon. In thinking on what a giant s***-sandwich this is, I’ve decided to make a chart to illustrate the point.
For a second, imagine this was all a movie…
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Tough break for ABC right? I’m not convinced that country D would not be spared either. I can’t help but look at this situation and shake my head. Our reality reads like a bad movie script. “Oh come on, it’s a little too extreme to be believable?” I’m very un-enthused by how this has been handled so far. Crossing my fingers on those sanctions, though some believe it’s too late. It’s upsetting to realize that for the past 3 years we’ve done the diplomatic equivalent of Milton from Office Space asking for his damn stapler back
Don’t believe for a moment that because we live in the 21st century, that we’re somehow immune from the kind of mistakes that were made not too long ago by those in similar shoes. An international community very similar to this one dropped the ball on Nazi Germany.
March 10th, 2012 at 3:37 am
In the early 1990s there were sanctions placed against MNO nation as retalitory measures taken in an effort to thwart military growth of MNO. Sanctions ended up destroying the middle class of MNO because the country’s people and the country’s military were apparently two very different things that did not have the presumed effect on each as nation E had thought. The intellectual and the job creators left because they could, leaving nothing for the rest. As a consequence, the people of MNO rebelled, causing civil disobedience to levels that brought death in great numbers. Not “great numbers” like what war is used to, but “great numbers” in supposed times of “peace”. But that soon ended. War came anyway with the new leader voted into power of nation D. Looking back, many think that the sanctions had no effect whatsoever on what they were trying to stop, and instead crippled the state so badly that it would crumble the instant it tried to stand on its own.
March 10th, 2012 at 6:25 pm
That’s the rough part about sanctions- they’re often TERRIBLE on the “poor people” we’re trying to help. We’re weakening the roster of any possible resistance movement. I find it interesting that the debate on military action is lively (and includes the opinions of those who have no knowledge base on the matter), but when it comes to sanctions there seems to be no debate at all really. Everyone assumes it’s the “safe” alternative to war, everyone knows it will likely be less effective, but we cross our fingers that they will work anyway. It’s a “feel good” measure that often ends up choking “The good guys”. When a dictator is given a choice between building missiles and feeding his military – and feeding his people and dismantling his arms program? They tend to pick the first one!