John Mearsheimer
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first heard Nov 2023
last heard 28 May
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Leslie Stahl said to her, do you know that 500,000 children have died in Iraq as a result of US sanctions?
This was in 1996.
And Leslie Stahl asked Madeleine Albright if she thought that was justified.
And Madeleine Albright shockingly said that she thought it was the right thing to do, to, in effect, murder 500,000 Iraqi children for the purposes of crusading.
Of course, it didn't work out that way, and what happened is that we had to invade Iraq, as you all remember, in 2003.
The sanctions didn't work.
This brings us to the whole question of the consequences of these acts where we crusade around the world.
The consequences of regime change.
Just to start, we have a rich literature in academia which shows that when you knock off regimes and you try to promote democracy, it fails almost every time.
The only case since World War II where we succeeded in regime change was in Panama in 1989.
This means we have not succeeded in producing a regime change that led to a democracy since the Cold War ended, since 9-11.
This is a policy that fails almost every time.
If you have any doubts about that, think about Afghanistan.
We knocked off the Taliban.
Who's in control in Afghanistan now?
The Taliban.
Think about Iraq, one of the greatest foreign policy disasters in American history.
We went in there in 2003.
Obama took us out in 2011.
We had to go back in 2014 to deal with ISIS, and we're still there.
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