Cool Article on the new sanctions regime. Sanctions that take advantage of our position as the leader of the global economy to “bar outlaw regimes from the global ATM”.
Wish we’d had them during, say, the Clinton administration…
One of my constant frustrations is that I’m a big picture guy. So I can see how Bush looked at the set of foreign policy issues on 9/12/2001 and said to himself: “Hmmm… We need to do something about Iraq”.
So I see that France and Russia are thereby as much to blame for the Iraq War as Bush2. For all the flak that Hillary is taking about the Iraq war from the left, I’m sure she’ll say at some point (once she’s cinched her parties nomination), “Hey, Iraq was poisoning the whole region. Remember, I was in the White House for 8 years.”
Then she’ll go on to rag on Bush for how he conducted the war instead of why. Which is fair, Bush is big picture (Can’t fix North Korea without the help of China.) but not enough little picture (need to actually spend those reconstruction dollars…).
Anyways, if we’d had this sanctions regime before, we wouldn’t have had to go into Iraq. So we probably won’t have to go into Iran.
Huzzah.
Hat Tip to Thomas Barnett, the “Pentagon’s New Map” guy.
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