Do Sanctions Boost Fundamentalist Thinking?

by Patrick Appel

Andrew Cockburn reviews Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions by Joy Gordon:

Denis Halliday, the UN humanitarian co-ordinator for Iraq who resignedin 1998 in protest at what he called the 'genocidal' sanctions regime,described at that time its more insidious effects on Iraqi society. Anentire generation of young people had grown up in isolation from theoutside world. He compared them, ominously, to the orphans of theRussian war in Afghanistan who later formed...