more great comment, this time from other angles:
Yesterday, Bruce Anderson argued in the Independent that it was all the victims' fault.
Today, Nick Cater says in the Guardian that "withholding aid from the United States is the only way to remove its domestic and foreign policy blinkers". In other words, it's fair to make ordinary people suffer in the name of influencing the government, regardless of whether it actually works or not. I hope he supported the Iraq sanctions too.