.@dandrezner suggests Obama foreign policy is "running on sanctions autopilot"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/03/12/why-is-the-united-states-sanctioning-venezuela-2/ …
Thought same, but not sanctions expert
@youbsanctioned Yes. I think he didn't want to sanction Venezuela, did to alleviate concern over Cuba, now finds convenient. @dandrezner
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@emptywheel can you elaborate? Don't understand this theory and have seen it cpl times@youbsanctioned@dandrezner -
@joanneleon The sanctions implemented a law Obama signed in December when under pressure over Cuba announce.@youbsanctioned@dandrezner -
@emptywheel@youbsanctioned@dandrezner Greenwald's reasoning makes a lot more sense & he's in the region. Dresner article leaves out a lot -
@joanneleon@emptywheel@youbsanctioned@dandrezner He leaves out main pt - article was about history of US hypocrisy on such things. -
@LitThom@joanneleon@emptywheel@youbsanctioned@dandrezner Yabut for some pundits "hypocrisy" = "whataboutism" and thus can be ignored. -
@ubiqunity@joanneleon@emptywheel@youbsanctioned@dandrezner Exactly right. And it's a deep wrong. Pt abt Saudi Arabia is important. -
@LitThom@ubiqunity@emptywheel@youbsanctioned@dandrezner also leaves out a lot about why VZ economy is in critical cond
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