A squishy, misguided, weak-kneed liberalism has emerged in Hillary Clinton’s comments about the kind of sanctions that would work best in halting Iran’s nuclear program. Rather than take the one step that would really be effective – cutting off the flow of refined gasoline to Iran – she instead insists that we need to target the Iranian leadership with sanctions.
Her husband wisely rejected the same kind of advice in deciding on the sanctions to impose on Serbia during the Bosnia war, opting for broad based economic sanctions to deter aggression. The sanctions were incredibly effective and the mere threat of their re-imposition in 1996 was enough to bring Serbian dictator Milosevic to his knees.
