In 1996 U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright was asked by Sixty Minutes whether the deaths of half-a-million Iraqi children from the sanctions that the U.S. government was enforcing against Iraq were worth it.

Her response was fascinating: She said that while it was a difficult issue, yes, the deaths of those half-a-million children were, in fact, “worth it.”

Nobody in the Bill Clinton administration disagreed with Albright’s assessment, at least not publicly. She wasn’t admonished or criticized. … Continue reading Are the Brussels Deaths “Worth It”?