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Starvation as leverage.
This phrase should stop you.
It should stop you the way a physical thing stops you, the way walking into a wall stops you.
A child is hungry.
The child is hungry because a government has decided that the hunger of civilians is an acceptable instrument of political pressure.
That the pain moving through a child's body, the specific biological failure of a body denied nutrition, can be calibrated and deployed like a weapons system.
The United States has used sanctions to produce exactly this condition in Cuba for sixty-four years.
In Iraq in the 1990s, when Madeleine Albright, asked about the 500,000 Iraqi children who had died as a result of sanctions, said the price was "worth it".
In Iran, in Venezuela, in North Korea, in Yemen through support for a blockade that the UN has called a weapon of mass starvation.
Worth it.
Five hundred thousand children.
Worth it.
This sentence was spoken aloud by the Secretary of State of the "most powerful nation on earth" on television and the anchor thanked her for her time.
And the country kept calling itself the "indispensable nation."
And the people inside it kept believing it.
What do you have to have already decided about whose children count in order to say that sentence?
What do you have to have already become?
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