Sanctions Won’t Solve Political Problems
Summary of “Sanctions Won’t Solve Political Problems”
Economic sanctions are a devastating political tool from a nation. “Though economic sanctions appear to be a powerful peacetime weapon, they actually do more harm than good,” (pg. 242) as writer, Thea Karas, states in her article. United States has imposed many economic sanctions, which have had very little impact on the leaders of the other nations. In July of 1941, the U.S. imposed an economic sanction on Japan, which provoked the Japanese and later that year in December they attacked the U.S. at Pearl Harbor. There was also an economic sanction imposed on Iraq by the United Nations, prohibiting Iraq to sell its oil on the international market. What these nations don’t realize is that the real victims of these sanctions aren’t the nation’s leaders but the innocent people. In Iraq due to the lack of selling their product on the market hundreds of Iraqis have died due to the lack of food, malnutrition, or the lack of medical care, and their leader ,Saddam Hussein, weren’t affected in any way, they were instead living in luxury. These economic sanctions have jeopardized relations between nations and instead of helping seek a solution they are usually led onto military conflicts.
The essay written by Thea Karas has a lot of great points, but I believe that the reason why she wrote this argumentative article was to make her opinion towards sanctions loud and clear. She talks about how in her point of view, all of the sanctions made up to now have not benefited any country in any way, instead made war within this countries hurting those who have no word in this, while the leaders of the nations live in luxury, unaffected by any downfall in the nation. The author Thea tries to explain her points of views by giving various examples of sanctions that have failed the past years, leaving no other remedy but having a military
Economic sanctions are a devastating political tool from a nation. “Though economic sanctions appear to be a powerful peacetime weapon, they actually do more harm than good,” (pg. 242) as writer, Thea Karas, states in her article. United States has imposed many economic sanctions, which have had very little impact on the leaders of the other nations. In July of 1941, the U.S. imposed an economic sanction on Japan, which provoked the Japanese and later that year in December they attacked the U.S. at Pearl Harbor. There was also an economic sanction imposed on Iraq by the United Nations, prohibiting Iraq to sell its oil on the international market. What these nations don’t realize is that the real victims of these sanctions aren’t the nation’s leaders but the innocent people. In Iraq due to the lack of selling their product on the market hundreds of Iraqis have died due to the lack of food, malnutrition, or the lack of medical care, and their leader ,Saddam Hussein, weren’t affected in any way, they were instead living in luxury. These economic sanctions have jeopardized relations between nations and instead of helping seek a solution they are usually led onto military conflicts.
The essay written by Thea Karas has a lot of great points, but I believe that the reason why she wrote this argumentative article was to make her opinion towards sanctions loud and clear. She talks about how in her point of view, all of the sanctions made up to now have not benefited any country in any way, instead made war within this countries hurting those who have no word in this, while the leaders of the nations live in luxury, unaffected by any downfall in the nation. The author Thea tries to explain her points of views by giving various examples of sanctions that have failed the past years, leaving no other remedy but having a military