Iran sanctions now causing food insecurity, mass suffering | Glenn Greenwald (The Guardian)
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/07/iran-santions-suffering
Yet again, the US and its allies spread mass human misery though a policy that is as morally indefensible as it is counter-productive (...) Source: The Guardian
Passionnant: Iran sanctions now causing food insecurity, mass suffering | Glenn Greenwald
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/07/iran-santions-suffering
What’s most extraordinary about all of this is that the extreme human suffering caused by US-led sanctions is barely acknowledged in mainstream American political discourse. One reason that Americans were so baffled after the 9/11 attack (why do they hate us?) is the same reason they continue to be so baffled by anti-American protests in the Muslim world (what are they so angry about?): namely, most Americans literally have no idea, because nobody ever told them, that their government’s imposition of sanctions in Iraq led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children, and they similarly have no idea that the suffering of ordinary Iranians is becoming increasingly substantial.
People in the Muslim world (who are relentlessly depicted as propagandized) are well aware of the human devastation US sanctions have caused, while Americans (who think of themselves as the beneficiaries of a free and vibrant press) have largely had those facts kept from them. That dynamic in part, is what often explains the irreconcilable worldviews among people in those two parts of the world.
As usual, don’t look for Democratic partisan to object to any of this.