Welcome to my blog. Today I read an article in the New York Times that talked about the white house looking at adding harsher sanctions to Iran. So I began thinking about a few things. What is the purpose? What is the goal? Will these sanctions achieve their goals?


The only way to quantify this is to look at like cases. So let’s examine Iraq. Clearly the sanctions, handed down by UN, did nothing to help topple the regime in Iraq other wise we wouldn’t be in a war now. Plus it helped create more resentment with in the country because an estimated 500,000 children died because of these sanctions.How will this be any different in Iran?


In all countries there are propaganda machines that help the leaders push their agendas. In Iran these sanctions will help the regime be shown that their hardships are being caused by the US and the regime will get the people to rally behind that. This is the way terrorism is born. "The Sept. 11 commission reported it has found no "collaborative relationship" between Iraq and al Qaeda." There were no terrorist in Iraq until we invaded.