Sanctions--the Feel-Good Solution
Sanctions are the diplomatically imposed presidential equivalent to eight year-olds shouting at recess;
Did not!
Did too!!
Did not!!!
Sanctions are the diplomatically imposed presidential equivalent to eight year-olds shouting at recess;
Did not!
Did too!!
Did not!!!
Seems they serve the same purpose of keeping us from coming to blows, but there ends the comparison. Sanctions are an American coercion of choice when it comes to being angry short of war. We have Anti-Terrorism Sanctions, Counter Narcotics Trafficking Sanctions, Non-proliferation Sanctions and even Diamond Trading Sanctions.
One can’t discuss sanctions without coming up against the common earliest description of sanctions and how effective they were nearly 25 centuries ago;
In 432 B.C., officials in Athens denied traders from the state of Megara access to Athens' harbor and its marketplace. That first recorded use of economic sanctions didn't work, and instead helped precipitate the Peloponnesian War, a horrific and lengthy confl…