Doug Bandow — Washington’s Endless Sanctions Are Finally Backfiring

Summary:
Uncle Sam’s failure is unsurprising. As Lord Acton famously intoned: “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” It doesn’t matter whether the intentions of Washington policymakers are good. The consequences of American policies have been bad, often disastrous. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." The American Conservative Washington’s Endless Sanctions Are Finally Backfiring Doug Bandow | senior fellow at the Cato Institute and former special assistant to President Ronald Reagan

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Mike Norman considers the following as important: hubris, power projection, US sanctions, US soft power

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