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Control v. compassion

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Control v. compassion
: I’m disgusted that the Euros are going to make ending sanctions to Iraq an issue.

“This issue could prove very divisive right now,” one EU diplomat observed. “If you lift sanctions you lift the control of the United Nations in what is going on in Iraq.”

This nation needs trade to employ its people and build its assets and simply to eat. But the Euros have never had the best interests of the Iraqi people at heart; they did not care about their freedom from tyranny and now they do not care about their poverty. They care about their control.

: And they’re still more concerned about artifacts than people.

5 responses to “Control v. compassion”

  1. John Thacker Avatar
    John Thacker

    Let me get this straight. Much of the Left favored removing the sanctions before. Now that Saddam’s gone, I can hardly see how they can refuse to want to remove the sanctions now unless:
    1) They seriously believe that the US, UK, et al. are worse than Saddam;
    2) They care more about being anti-American than about the Iraqi people;
    3) They care more about cheap symbolism than the Iraqi people;
    4) They care more about political power than the Iraqi people.
    You’re right, disgusting.

  2. Pyecraft Avatar
    Pyecraft

    Its the mother of all sulks, ain’t it?

  3. Brant Avatar
    Brant

    How can anybody possibly take the Europeans seriously, anymore?

  4. Kelly Setzer Avatar
    Kelly Setzer

    Perhaps the UN should be relocated to Paris. It sits on some prime Manhattan realestate.

  5. John Avatar
    John

    Good thing that we are as capable, more so, than ignoring sanctions, to both our and Iraq’s benefit, as the French/Russian/Germans were before the post-Saddam era.
    This only further isolates them, and furthers the end of the UN as a functioning body.