Following that government's outlawing of the Solidarity movement, which the Pope had publicly and covertly supported, Reagan suspended Poland's Most Favored Nation trading status, costing cash-strapped Poland some $6 billion a year in sales.
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That was my favorite part. Liberals howl anytime you cut foreign aid, Remember code pink at all those groups protesting the 'deaths of iraqi kids from sanctions'. We still ship grain to north korea.
The hardline stance works nearly every time its tried, and REALLY benefits the citizens of the country.
These dictators destitute their country so much that they actually need the outside world more then the outside world needs them. If the collective force of the outside world works against them they cannot stand.
"The hardline stance works nearly every time its tried, and REALLY benefits the citizens of the country. "
The first exception that comes to mind is the banking and economic sanctions on panama in the late 80's. It made a mess of the banking system (which uses the dollar), hurt any and everyone with a bank account (you couldn'g get your money out, poor or rich), and did not dislodge the target.
Of course, when he was arrested during a coup in 10-89, Southcom also declined to send a unit the 2 miles from Quarry Heights to the Comandancia to pick him up either as the coupmongers requested. This obviously would have been much harder to do than the actually invasion 2 months later. (sarcasm)