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This is why sanctions are bad policy, they indiscriminately cause hardships to citizens of the affected countries. These sanctions it appears only serves to gro
by publicola1990 6y ago
This is why sanctions are bad policy, they indiscriminately cause hardships to citizens of the affected countries. These sanctions it appears only serves to grow resentment against US in these countries.
- redis_mlc 6y ago> This is why sanctions are bad policy Nonsense. I wish HN readers would actually think before they type. Sanctions are: 1) moderately effective in the long run at turning a belligerent state back into farmers 2) cheaper and less destructive than military invasion. > they indiscriminately cause hardships to citizens There is no way to target the leadership specifically. For example, the North Korean leaders still get foreign luxury goods regardless of any embargoes. The Iranian people remember the history of Iran when it was called Persia, before it became an Islamic Republic. From reporting I've read, Iranians love the US and hate their government, as if that actually mattered to anybody outside Iran.
- Fazel94 6y agoThat is exactly the case, but resentment is directed towards the policies that themselves are directed clearly against ordinary citizens that have nothing to with the government policies(it isn't a functioning democracy). High ranking official aren't disrupted by the sanctions, people's lives are.