gambit
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This is about how a government treats its people. No comparison with inter-state relations. For Iraq, there was the Oil-For-Food program that allowed the Iraqi government purchase humanitarian goods. The program was managed by the UN, not US. The money went into a UN managed escrow account. During that program, the US was the singular largest buyer of Iraqi oil, even though we did not need it. Saddam Hussein funneled much, if not most, of the OFF program to support his army and to build palaces repleted with gold plated toilet fixtures. China, Russia, France, Germany, and several other smaller countries, got under the table deals from Saddam Hussein. How Saddam Hussein was before sanctions on Iraq, the same Saddam Hussein during sanctions: a brutal dictator. How much medicines could be bought with billions of OFF money? So if you want to blame US for those Iraqi children deaths, then also blame China because China was fully complicit in the corruption that went all the way to the office of the UN SecGen itself.What about the humanity of Americans a million dead in Iraq. Children's are being born disformed from Vietnam to Kosovo to Iraq because of the crap you throw over there during you're wars. For every one dollar the US spend on foreign aid America spends another 2 to 3 dollars on wars abroad. Killing people from Yemen to Pakistan to Afghanistan to Libya etc.
And isn't one of the problems in North Korea the sanctions that makes it hard for North Korea to trade and invest and develop their economy. So Americans are placing sanctions on starving people not only in North Korea but also in Gaza and other parts of the world. And what about the US led sanctions against Iraq in the 1990's that killed 500,000 children's in Iraq that according to former secretary of state Madeline Albright was worth it. And what about the sanctions against Iran that has caused medicine shortages and other hardships to the 75 million Iranian people.
This is the humanity of Americans who keeps electing and re-electing warmongers like these. Because the American people either agree with what their leaders are doing or because they don't care or are ignorent to what their leaders and country is doing to people around the world. I don't know which one is worse.