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After the election, Holbrooke wrote a memo to Warren Christopher and Anthony Lake advocating the strategy known as "lift and strike"--lifting the arms embargo that prevented the Muslims from defending themselves, and bombing the Bosnian Serbs.
Working with Russia (a country involved in an ongoing campaign against Chechen separatists, some of whom received support from Bin Ladin), the United States persuaded the United Nations to adopt Security Council Resolution 1333, which included an embargo on arms shipments to the Taliban, in December 2000.
It's disingenuous to argue that the embargo doesn't actually hurt many people.
It was Iraq that had wanted a meeting of foreign ministers held, followed by a summit, in order to get the embargo against it lifted, the paper said.
It is hard to imagine, though, why any government would embargo such a product, unless the plastic surgeons' lobby has already got to them.