Columnists Ken Blackwell and Bob Morrison:
“The problem of sanctions is an old one. President Jefferson tried to impose a trade embargo on Britain in 1807 to stop the Royal Navy from seizing our sailors on the high seas. … The War of 1812 was the direct result of the failure of Jefferson’s sanctions to make Britain change her behavior. At the outset of the Civil War, Confederate President Jefferson Davis imposed a cotton embargo. Millions of bales of cotton were left to rot on Southern wharves because Davis and his Cabinet were convinced they could force Britain to break the Union blockade of Southern ports. … Jeff Davis’s cotton embargo failed — spectacularly. Prior to World War II, the U.S. imposed an oil embargo on Japan. The theory was that the Japanese military rulers, lacking any domestic sources of petroleum, would cease their aggression against China and be forced by economic sanctions to come to the negotiating table. You’ve heard of Pearl Harbor. That was the Japanese Imperialists’ answer to the U.S. economic sanctions. … And yet, we are assured that sanctions will work with the Iranian mullahs. … Seizing our embassy is an act of war. Holding 52 Americans hostage for 444 days is an act of war. Sending a suicide bomber into the barracks in Beirut to murder 241 Marines and Navy Corpsmen is an act of war. Plotting to bomb a restaurant in Georgetown, in the heart of our nation’s capital is an act of war. The mullahs will never succumb to sanctions. They don’t care about ‘stuff.’ They only understand force!”
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