This is radical? And how exactly do economic sanctions work? The rich ruling classes limit the education levels, completely tyrannize and indoctrinate the lower classes while dividing the national resources, and revenues amongst themselves. Are we arguing a successful foreign policy would be to limit the direct import of say, oil, to our nation from that particular nation? It simply wouldn't work and would only increase the price of a commodity we presently need for our economy to function. How would that limit terrorism? The hard fact about limiting terrorism is that there are very few options; and they all involve the military and intellegence agencies. Saddam kept violating sanction after sanction while enriching himself and starving off his enemies- another round of sanctions would be the answer to defiance? No, unfortunately the only other option after sanctions is bombing the hell out of him and invading. Would sanctions had hurt the Taliban? Come on! This is radical- give me a break.
