The White House has put sanctions on 16 Iranian banks and also assets of the Revolutionary Guards. Businesses that do any business with these banks will be barred from doing business in the US, according to the Wall Street Journal yesterday.
Are these sanctions doing any good? Iran will just find another way to take care of business and we are just looking like bumblers in foreign policy. Is this what Reagan would have done? I don't think so.
We need to remember the words of Teddy Roosevelt: "Talk softly and carry a big stick."
But Iran will soon have a big stick, and then what is our policy going to be? Are we just going to keep prodding a lion with a skinny little stick and making him more and more angry?
Whatever is done, we need a new policy.
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