{"id":38397,"date":"2021-11-23T12:48:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T20:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=38397"},"modified":"2021-11-23T12:48:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T20:48:26","slug":"the-bankruptcy-of-coercive-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/23\/the-bankruptcy-of-coercive-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bankruptcy of Coercive Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"

NBC News reports<\/a> on the bankrupt \u201cPlan B\u201d options being considered by the Biden administration if nuclear talks in Vienna aren\u2019t successful:<\/p>\n

As Iran and world powers prepare to resume negotiations next week on reviving a nuclear deal, the U.S. and its allies are already debating a list of “Plan B” options if the negotiations collapse, Western diplomats, former US officials and experts say.<\/i><\/p>\n

With chances for a breakthrough at the talks in Vienna looking remote and Iran at odds with U.N. nuclear inspectors, US and European officials face a grim set of choices \u2013 from ramped-up sanctions to potential military action \u2013 as Iran\u2019s nuclear program advances into dangerous territory.<\/i><\/p>\n

These options are grim because they are also futile and destructive. We need to understand that piling on more sanctions or attacking Iran\u2019s facilities will accomplish nothing except to kill more Iranians and convince their government that it needs a deterrent. The \u201cPlan B\u201d options being discussed are not serious options, because they stand no chance of preventing proliferation in Iran. Even if military action weren\u2019t illegal aggression, it would still be folly. At best, these options would accelerate current trends in the expansion of Iran\u2019s nuclear program, and at worst they would lead to regional war and proliferation. The only things that have won concessions from Iran are sanctions relief and compromise. Trying to increase pressure beyond \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d means going in the wrong direction from where we need to go. This is a phenomenally stupid backup \u201cplan,\u201d and anyone advocating for any of these \u201cgrim choices\u201d should be ignored. <\/p>\n

Read the rest of the article at Eunomia<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Daniel Larison is a weekly columnist for Antiwar.com and maintains his own site at Eunomia<\/a>. He is former senior editor at<\/i> The American Conservative. He has been published in the<\/i> New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and<\/i> Culture11, and was a columnist for<\/i> The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NBC News reports on the bankrupt \u201cPlan B\u201d options being considered by the Biden administration if nuclear talks in Vienna aren\u2019t successful: As Iran and world powers prepare to resume negotiations next week on reviving a nuclear deal, the U.S. and its allies are already debating a list of “Plan B” options if the negotiations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-38397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":"If the last few years have shown us anything, it is the total bankruptcy of making maximalist demands while using economic coercion."},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38399,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38397\/revisions\/38399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38397"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=38397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}