 The Belmont Club highlights an especially vile case of French perfidy, during the blockade against Iraq in the 1990s. Read the whole thing for the details, but Wretchard’s closing comments say it all.
| The United States was being played like a fiddle, its huge fleet and aerial assets led in circles in the sham blockade that we now know was set up by ‘friends’ on the Security Council who were running a covert rearmament effort called the Oil-for-Food Programme. History may show that Oil-For-Food; the corrupt regime of UN inspections, the AQ Khan nuclear proliferation industry — and much else — were all of a piece. Future generations will be astonished, not at how terrible that September day in New York was, but at how lightly the US got off for the folly of the 1990s, escaping not so much through vigilance as sheer good fortune. |
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