Thursday, August 17, 2006

Killing dark babies as a good career move

One year after the end (sic) of the first Gulf War, U.S.-enforced UN sanctions were killing 300 Iraqi children a day. On the May 12, 1996 edition of 60 Minutes, then U.S. Ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright had the following exchange about the effects of those sanctions:

Leslie Stahl: “We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And—and you know, is the price worth it?”
Madeleine Albright: “I think this is a very hard choice but the price—we think the price is worth it.”

Shortly afterwards, Albright was named U.S. Secretary of State.

As they say in South Florida: 

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From our very own RMJ:

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I am talking to you about poetry
and you say
when do we eat.
The worst of it is
I’m hungry too.

“Communication,” by Alicia Partnoy

Posted on 08/17 at 08:00 AM
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