Ultimately, the protection of civilians is the responsibility of individual...

Ultimately, the protection of civilians is the responsibility of individual States themselves. Therefore, we should improve the capacities of the concerned States so that they can assume their responsibilities ably, rather than weaken those capacities through sanctions, despite the fact that those who support sanctions try to portray them as either smart or targeted or by using other evasive descriptions. None of those descriptions alter the reality that sanctions cause undeniable harm to the ordinary people of the country targeted.