Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar really wants the Turkish government to be held accountable for cracking down on the Kurds in Syria, but she just doesn’t think sanctions are the way for us to go about it:
“Too often, U.S. policymakers are quick to place sanctions on regimes we disagree with, without considering the likelihood of success or the humanitarian consequences.”
My piece for @washingtonpost on why we need a new vision for foreign policy: https://t.co/oYIfPxOy1k
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) October 23, 2019
Not just Turkey. In Iran, Venezuela, and elsewhere, we impose sanctions on the very people we say we are helping, without a plan for what comes next.
It's economic warfare and it needs to stop. https://t.co/oYIfPxOy1k https://t.co/8AL1QcBds0
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) October 23, 2019
Omar writes:
This is an unmistakable echo of the failed U.S. strategy of “maximum pressure” on Iran and Venezuela. And just as with those two countries, it would be a humanitarian and geopolitical disaster.
In so much of our foreign policy, we rely on muscle memory and a limited toolbox to decide the best course of action. And too often sanctions regimes are ill considered, incoherent and counterproductive.
Research has shown that sanctions rarely achieve their desired goals. In the worst-case scenario, they hurt the people of a country — generally the very people we’re purporting to help — without making a dent in the country’s behavior. And in the case of human-rights abusers, research suggests that more abuses typically occur with economic sanctions in place than without them.
So, she’s against sanctions, huh? Could’ve fooled us! Could’ve fooled @AG_Conservative, too:
Person who supports a full boycott and sanctions against the world’s only Jewish nation says what?
And btw, the Venezuela sanctions Omar objects to target the regime, but BDS targets all Israelis. pic.twitter.com/C49W2A9zzd
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) October 23, 2019
Guess some economic sanctions are more problematic than others. Or something.
How does no one ask @IlhanMN how she can justify supporting sanctions targeting Israelis, but oppose them when the targets are the worst human rights abusers in the world (Iran, Venezuela etc)?
Do the humanitarian costs not count when you’re targeting Jews?
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) October 23, 2019
Well, actually …
To Ilhan and her ilk Jews don’t count as humans.
— Mark C, BBQ fetishist ?? (@UntraceableMC) October 23, 2019
Yep. And, of course, there’s also this:
Because the media is largely composed of cowards.
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) October 23, 2019
Cowards who won’t dare hold Ilhan Omar accountable for her anti-Semitism, bigotry, and double standards.
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