Iran Sanctions, just like Iraq, right?

See, the problem is that 'sanctioning' Iran hurts the ordinary people. I mean, it's not quite as effective as carpet bombing, but if you want to sow the seeds of anti-US hatred, then bravo.

Does anyone give a damn that the Iraq sanctions killed up to a million people (the UN's own figures say half a million children) during the 90s and early 2000s? But, they're not human anyway, so waste them en masse, right? But oh, if we sanction your country, declare it a 'no-fly' zone patrolled by our aircraft, and you shoot at them, that's a violation of sanctions and 'International Law'. What crap.

Can you imagine if the EU, Russia and China sanctioned the US, shut off all oil trade, declared that the if the American People didn't like it, they should overthrow their leader and put in someone more ChiCom-friendly? (yes more ChiCom friendly than Obama). You know what you would do.

But that wouldn't happen, right? You are Untouchable America. The World Police.

NO!

You are not the world police. For this be grateful. It is not your duty to die trying to stop rogue nations. Good. No-one deserves to be given that dirty task.

Sanctions are an act of WAR. We used to call them blockades before political correctness Newspeak messed with the language. No one gets in or out. That is an initiation of WAR. Get it through your thick skulls before shrapnel goes through the skulls of more of (probably not your) American kids. Your government is not trying to protect you, they want you distracted from the economic pillaging going on closer to home. And they sure as hell don't give a flying F-16 about the troops.

But who will protect Israel?...

Israel, as all nations (including Iran, by the way) has a right to defend itself. Anyone attacks Israel, they have their own nukes including their infamous Samson Option which would mean even if Israel got nuked (not as frikkin likely as some people seem to think) they would annihilate whoever did it. Let MAD work like it did in the Cold War.

And by the way, it's a little rich that Israel complains Iran might have secret nukes, when they actually do have secret nukes and are still holding that guy who was a whistleblower on the secret Israeli nuclear project. But they're not Muslim, so one rule for 'them' and another rule for 'us' ("Judeo Christians", as the neocons view it) right?

But let's suppose you're really racist or whatever and you think all Muslims must die. (Strange considering how much you same people were all in love with the CIA backed Green Revolution, huh?) Now, there are other minority groups in Iran too. Much is made of Iranian Jews, for example. Sanctions against Iran hurt them too. What about the family of Neda, the 'green martyr'? They are affected also. How many of the anti-Ahmadinejad protestors turn against the US because of the impact of the sanction on their life? How many turn around and back Ahmadinejad, because it looks like he's the only one who will oppose US intervention in Iran?

The only sound foreign policy is a leave-alone policy. Nation building is a joke, as Afghanistan and Iraq have showed. Sanctions on Iran harm the very people who could help, and I don't like to use the Newspeak term, 'reform' that nation.