In These Times

The question of morality might look different if a slightly broader perspective was taken. I remember examining some of the better data available on this before the beginning of the Irak war. What I remember is: 1) Oil-for-Food worked: yes, it did enrich Saddam and pay for a few more palaces, but child mortality started dropping after it took full effect. The real question that I've seen nobody answer (or ask) is how those post-1996 statistics compare with the current child mortality in Iraq, post-invasion. Or is it that nobody is even able to gather such data in the current context? …

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