US sanctions warfare: failed strategy, bankrupt morality.

In response to the series of articles on sanctions, using North Korea as a case study, published on solidarity.co.nz, US Ambassador (ret) Chas Freeman wrote:

“I consider policies of maximum pressure that created a nuclear threat to my country where there had been none to be definitive proof of the imbecility of those policies.  Quite aside from that, human decency would not countenance the denial of medical assistance to Koreans in the north regardless of how vile the regime they must live under may be.  I fear that similar policies directed at Iran will also drive it to build the nuclear weapons it has heretofore declined to build and to mount them on ICBMs aimed at its American tormentors.” Read on.