Madeline Albright's 1996 contention in a TV interview that the death of 500,000 Iraqi children was the "worth the price" dismayed--but did not shock--many Americans. Sanctions on Iraq have stood since 1991 with the conditions for their end shifting according to the demands of the US administration. But their success has been dubious and the President continues to thwart the importation of about half of the humanitarian goods allowed by law. Also on the show, Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, Indiana Congressman Dan Burton's Colombia insurrection, and Kofi Annan on the state of the world.
Stick to Your Principals
Joel Klein, New York City Schools Chancellor, is setting up a leadership initiative for school principals
Open Phones
Listeners' comments on the Chancellor's plan and the feistiness of former mayor Ed Koch
$2 Billion And Nothing To Show For It
Robin Kirk, senior researcher with Human Rights Watch and author of More Terrible Than Death: Massacres, Drugs, and America's War in Colombia (Public Affairs, January 2003), on the costly and ineffective drug war in Colombia www.hrw.org
Worth 500,000 Deaths?
Joy Gordon, professor of philosophy at Fairfield University and author of A Peaceful, Silent Deadly Remedy: The Ethics of Economic Sanctions (Harvard University Press, Spring 2004) believes economic sanctions are another form of warfare.
Open Phones
Listeners' calls on whether it's time to reconsider past Israeli-Palestinian agreements and build from the unconcluded Taba negotiations.