Corrupt oil-for-food program

The article in Friday’s Washington Post, about the Paul Volcker report, shows how corrupt the U.N. oil-for-food program was. Benon Savan, the director, sold illegally obtained oil rights for $1.5 million, and the government of Iraq received billions of dollars in illegal sales.

This story demonstrates many things:

(1) The U.N. cannot be trusted to run an honest program.

(2) Humanitarian aid and economic sanctions do not go together! Even when there’s no cheating, the result you wind up with is that the sanctioned country receives money or valuable items, freeing up more money for military spending.

(3) We’ve had economic sanctions against Cuba for decades, and Fidel Castro is still in charge down there.

(4) Military action is the only way to ensure a regime change. The Iraq war cost us a lot of money, but the Iraqi people are certainly better off now.

Comments

[mikeca]

The other thing this report shows is that members of the UN security council, including in some cases the United States, were aware of some, but not all of this illegal activity, and for various political or strategic reasons choose to ignore it.

There are cases where sanctions have been more effective, like Libya, but most of the time they are not very effective.

[Outlaw3]

Sanctions don't cause regime change, the idea is to have a nice way to encourage the people to rise up and change the regime. If their lot in life is bad enough, they should throw out their rulers. Unfortunately, you need a population with the means to do so (see the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights), and the will to do so in a large enough group (secret police and internal security forces have an effect on this part). Repressive regimes tend to treat their military and security forces VERY well since their continuation depends on those forces.

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