I knew this would happen but it's just too delicious not to report here. After all the complaining that the left did about the harm that sanctions were doing to the poor innocents of Iraq, no opponents of the war seem now to be in a hurry to lift them.
The ruling clique in Ottawa declined to enter the war because it valued the principle of Security Council supremacy more than a chance to end the suffering of Iraqis. True to these principles it now favours prolonging the sanctions until the moment the Security Council deems them to be unnecessary. The fact that the Security Council contains veto-wielding countries who have a financial interest in prolonging the sanctions doesn't trouble our mandarins. The fact that the Saddamite regime is defunct doesn't appear to matter either. Yet more proof that to the Jacobin mind principle always trumps mere reality.
Posted by at April 19, 2003 02:47 PM