The War on Aid Groups

Editor,

The U.N. as a matter of adherence to the principles enunciated in its own Universal Declaration of Human Rights should eschew the imposition of economic sanctions on any population.

This includes the sanctions instigated by the United States against Iraq under Bill Clinton that killed an estimated million and a half Iraqi children under the age of 10 and the sanctions George Bush is agitating to inflict on the people of Iran.

When the U.N. is seen as the bastion of human rights it was intended to be and not as a political tool in the hands of aggressive powers, oppressed people everywhere will welcome and protect it.

(For a comprehensive history of U.N. Security Council Resolution 661, which established sanctions against Iraq on August 6, 1990, please see "The Great War for Civilisation" by Robert Fisk, pages 703-710.)

re: "For Terrorists, a War on Aid Groups" (8/19/2008)