My Answer to Chris Sapienza

Ok dear friend, here is why I don't agree 100%. The idea of punishing the entire collective for the crimes of a few is in itself a war crime...though I must admit, I am a big fan of embargoes. Even after WWII the entire German population was not declared as war criminals, nor were the citizens of Japan or Italy or any other country for that matter. In Serbia, Sudan, Rwanda, etc only those directly involved in war crimes were considered for trial or even accused. When you start accusing the entire population of a Democracy of war crimes because of what their leaders do- or do not do- then you criminalize their votes and their voice. There are those in the US who have always fought against what they considered to be "evil," now because of the lack of a positive result to your liking you would label them as war criminals?