Comments on: “Breathtakingly Immoral” http://pjmedia.com/claudiarosett/breathtakingly_immoral/ Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:55:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: LSD http://pjmedia.com/claudiarosett/breathtakingly_immoral/#comment-911 LSD Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:58:42 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/2007/11/27/breathtakingly-immoral/#comment-911 What the UN has done is tantamount to sheilding cancer from radiation treatment while simultaneously exposing the rest of the body to it. A sanctions program that is irresponsibly managed (or purposefully mis-managed) can go on indefinitely. When the managers are gaming the system in partnership with the very target of the sanctions, the losers are those weakest members of the subject society. Perhaps the most cutting irony is that the weak are the very folks that the UN deems to represent. Another cruel irony is that the deadly impact of the sanctions was even reported by the UN themselves when they thought it could be used to pressure the US. Someone ought to pay. What the UN has done is tantamount to sheilding cancer from radiation treatment while simultaneously exposing the rest of the body to it.

A sanctions program that is irresponsibly managed (or purposefully mis-managed) can go on indefinitely. When the managers are gaming the system in partnership with the very target of the sanctions, the losers are those weakest members of the subject society. Perhaps the most cutting irony is that the weak are the very folks that the UN deems to represent. Another cruel irony is that the deadly impact of the sanctions was even reported by the UN themselves when they thought it could be used to pressure the US.

Someone ought to pay.

]]> By: James Murphy http://pjmedia.com/claudiarosett/breathtakingly_immoral/#comment-910 James Murphy Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:20:21 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/2007/11/27/breathtakingly-immoral/#comment-910 Yes, the UN should be doing more about this reprehensible scandal, but why isn't the US taking the lead in appointing, say, a special committe of inquiry, and asking other Security Council members to join? As in the Wyatt case, we owe a debt of gratitude to prosecutors willing to take this on, but the US should be making a more forceful case, based on the Volker report and other sources. Thank you, Claudia, for following this story so closely. Yes, the UN should be doing more about this reprehensible scandal, but why isn’t the US taking the lead in appointing, say, a special committe of inquiry, and asking other Security Council members to join? As in the Wyatt case, we owe a debt of gratitude to prosecutors willing to take this on, but the US should be making a more forceful case, based on the Volker report and other sources. Thank you, Claudia, for following this story so closely.

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