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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (729698)7/29/2013 5:11:57 PM
From: one_less   of 1575806
 
Less, the logic is still the same.

Do you blame the poverty and the starvation in North Korea on the sanctions? If no, why not?

The logic is not the same logic I’ve objected to. I object to the targeting of innocents.

The objection I have has nothing to do with body count or human suffering in general. All human beings die and suffering is a common condition of human existence. Most of us have suffered at the hands of another and many in the world die in relation to some conflict they willingly engage in. Those individual or complex circumstances have nothing to do with my objections here.

There are some similarities of the sanctions even though the targets of the sanctions are not at all similar.

They are similar because in both cases the sanctions have failed to achieve their objectives. They are also similar because in both cases the populations have suffered devastating consequences.

The target of the sanctions are different in each case and the populations are different in each case.

In the case of Iraqi sanctions, the target initially was toward the mechanisms of state which you could say is relatively similar to NK, but by the mid to late nineties had clearly morphed and the target became the innocent outlying populations of Iraqis who were not supporters or members of the Iraqi Regime and who were not considered a direct or indirect threat to the USA. They, in fact, were often populations of people who were considered adversaries of Saddam’s Regime and who we had hoped would remove the Regime in furtherance of our objectives...once their suffering became significantly unbearable.

In the case of NK the target is specifically blocking the sale of Nuclear Arms which are a direct threat to the world. The population of NK is also a mono-cultural industrial military population. As members of the NK military, each citizen within the NK population is supportive of the NK desire to promote the military objectives and is as culpable as the North Korean leadership … and so can be considered one unified enemy. We could try to blame some of the problem on the propoganda of the state but the individuals within North Korea support this unified position, so it would be hard to declare them as innocents. Still, any personal suffering can be considered an unfortunate secondary or collateral result of the direct target which is to block sales…rather than an intended result.
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