This just in from the 'racist' Buchanan.
Does he have any consistency in his economics?
Robert Anthony Peters
BUCHANAN CALLS U.S. SANCTIONS 'WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION'
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, in a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Pat Buchanan denounced economic sanctions as the "feel-good but ineffectual foreign policy of the self-righteous" and called for lifting embargoes on all U.S. food, medicine, and basic consumer goods. Excerpts follow:
"Woodrow Wilson once called sanctions the 'peaceful silent deadly remedy.' Today, they may fairly be called the Americans' weapon of mass destruction, whose victims are almost always the weak and the young."
"Madeline Albright was asked on 60 Minutes if she believed that a policy that killed so many children was worth it. She answered: 'We believe the price is worth it.' No, Madam Secretary, it is not worth it. A policy that sentences thousands of Iraqi children to death every month, because their parents will not rise up and overthrow a tyrant, is unrighteous and immoral."
"There is monumental hypocrisy in how President Clinton has applied his sanctions policy. He blockaded, starved, and invaded tiny Haiti for human rights violations but he proudly chaperones China into the WTO. He imposes sanctions on Myanmar as a threat to American security, while shoveling billions in aid to North Korea which is building nuclear weapons."
"Sanctions impose suffering not on dictators, but on their oppressed people; they antagonize allies and undermine our leadership; they build up deposits of resentment and hatred against us among Arab, Islamic and Asian people; they deny our businessmen and farmers access to markets our rivals rush to capture; and they fail either to disarm or to dislodge the targeted regime. They only massage our sense of moral superiority over other nations."
"Among my first acts as President will be to declare an end to all sanctions on the sale or transfer of U.S. food, medicine, or goods essential to a decent life or a civilian economy."
For a full transcript call (703) 734-2700 or visit our website at http://www.buchananreform.com
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