nearly one million Iraqi children are chronically malnourished. Infant mortality and waterborne

illnesses are also up dramatically.(Omstad 42) These problems are a direct result of economic

sanctions imposed on Iraq by the United States. Thomas Omstad, a field reporter for U.S. News

and World Report describes the sanctions as, "a blunt instrument that can clearly take innocent

lives." It is because of this and a multitude of other reasons that the statement the use of

economic sanctions to achieve U.S. foreign policy goals is moral does not ring true.

In order to prove that economic sanctions are not morally right we must first understand

what an economic sanction is. Economic sanction is defined as the withholding of supplies from

countries that do not agree with, or follow the policies laid out for them by the United States.

This definition is given by the mission work organization "Pastors for Peace" based out of

Chicago Illinois. It is also the working definition for the sanctions that the United States has

Sanctions are immoral because they harm innocents. As I stated earlier, th

U.S. blocks many necessary drugs from being sent to Iraq, for fear that they will be used in

of sanctions we relize that there are very few, if any benefits, and the costs are immense. These

equipment is found in abundance in the United States, in fact there are usually between one and

According to IFCO Pastors for Peace in their monthly newsletter from January of 1996, a prime

weapons. Sanctions did not keep China from committing awful human rights abuses, but since

senseless harming of innocent people in the sanctions imposed against Iraq. Part of the reason for

the United States to get involved in World War II, which eventually killed thousands upon

has the same military classification as a handgun.(Sirico15) What this means is that as Iraq tries

human rights abuses appear to have significantly decreased.(Levy 421) According to U.S. News

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