“When Albright declared that the half a million Iraqi kids that we’d allegedly starved to death with our sanctions were a price worth paying, because of some vague notion that it had advanced our national interest, what she did was evil.”
Life is web of hobbesian traps. Albrigth perfectly knew that access to international markets allowed Saddam Hussein to become formidable in the late nineties, and that lead to war in 1991. If allowed the same kind of access, a new war would be likely.
At the end the US had to decide between brutal containment or outrigth invasion, and history has proven that Albrigth containment, instead of Bush invasion was the right policy.
The example is specially unfortunate, because in this particular trolley problem, both policies were tried, and we know who was right.
“When Albright declared that the half a million Iraqi kids that we’d allegedly starved to death with our sanctions were a price worth paying, because of some vague notion that it had advanced our national interest, what she did was evil.”
Life is web of hobbesian traps. Albrigth perfectly knew that access to international markets allowed Saddam Hussein to become formidable in the late nineties, and that lead to war in 1991. If allowed the same kind of access, a new war would be likely.
At the end the US had to decide between brutal containment or outrigth invasion, and history has proven that Albrigth containment, instead of Bush invasion was the right policy.
The example is specially unfortunate, because in this particular trolley problem, both policies were tried, and we know who was right.