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I’ve had it! Sanctions here, sanctions there. First South Africa, then Libya then Iraq, then Serbia, yesterday Afghanistan, today Liberia. Who next? The Palestinians? It seems the ‘UN’ goes around looking for a civilian population in dire need of international assistance and protection only to punish them for this crime of need with sanctions. The US constantly trumpets the virtues of democracy and the free economic market (apparently ‘capitalism’ is now a dirty word). It claims it ‘defends’ the right of peoples everywhere in the world, to live and participate in a democratic society guided by a free market. Well thank you America, but how are these noble principles of yours being defended by imposing sanctions? One doesn’t have to be a brain surgeon to see that democracy and a free economic market will not evolve, let alone flourish, in a society subjected to sanctions. How many more nations must ‘we’ sanction, how many more people must suffer and endure the effects of sanctions, before this madness comes to an end? And if sanctions are to be the weapons of the future, does this mean that we can finally do away with traditional weapons such as missiles, firearms and bombs? Meanwhile, the UN has voted not to send a peacekeeping force to protect the Palestinian people. That’s probably because they already live in, and are enjoying the benefits of, the Middle East’s only democratic country with a free economic market. Yours sincerely, Salwa de Vree. ----------------------------------------------- FREE! The World's Best Email Address @email.com Reserve your name now at http://www.email.com -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq For removal from list, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk Full details of CASI's various lists can be found on the CASI website: http://www.casi.org.uk