"Yes they can, I have just done so."
Then you eed to justify that scurrilous statement
"They are a means of intimidation which always hurt the poorest sections of the targeted society"
"They are a means of intimidation which always hurt the poorest sections of the targeted society"
The populations of those countries targeted - such as South Africa, are already being hurt - sanctions are a way of putting pressure on states to end that hurt - what alternatives do you propose?
Sanctions played a major part in bringing the Apartheid regime in South Africa down
Had sanctions been applied to the Assad regime, as suggested by fleeing former government members, Assad may have been stopped and Isis would have had no breeding ground to build on.
My point again - are U.N., Oxfam, Amnesty International, human Rights Watch, the Anti Apartheid movement, Obama, Cameron and Corbyn supporters of terrorism - a simple yes or no will do?
Jim Carroll