Doug Bandow — Washington’s Endless Sanctions Are Finally Backfiring

Uncle Sam’s failure is unsurprising. As Lord Acton famously intoned: “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” It doesn’t matter whether the intentions of Washington policymakers are good. The consequences of American policies have been bad, often disastrous.

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

The American Conservative

Washington’s Endless Sanctions Are Finally Backfiring

Doug Bandow | senior fellow at the Cato Institute and former special assistant to President Ronald Reagan