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Originally posted by Kadath
Oh, I'm sorry. You guys were saying "Fuck those other countries that don't like us, let's stop giving them money!"
First of all, "countries" aren't entities that like or dislike us. We should punish all the people because a vocal component of the population is against US policy? So right back atcha.
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So countries like China and Iran and Syria and so on have no desire to watch the US fail? And the 60 minutes episode that showed N. Koreans teaching kids that the US is evil is not only propaganda but no country truly teaches their citizens to hate us?
I'm left and liberal but come on to say countries aren't entities and cannot hate people is ridiculous. Countries governments all over the world take our aid and then blame us for their human rights violations.
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Originally posted by Kadath
How much money do we give to Palestine? 1/3 of the ENTIRE US foreign aid budget goes to Israel!! We might as well be slashing Palestine's tires. I'm just suggesting maybe you don't know as much as you think you do about how foreign aid really works. It's not as if the US is cutting free checks made out to "cash" to every country with its hand out and then half of them take the check with one hand and give us the finger with the other. We provide money for specific things, like fighting AIDS, tuberculosis & malaria, or antidrug initiatives in South America, or what have you.
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That's what the Red Cross and the WHO (World Health Organization) are for. I say pay them the aid and let them distribute the medical supplies. The money our government gives very rarely sees its way to the people of those dictatorships and countries that hate us.
Iraq was a great example. Sure we embargoed and sent humanitarian aid but did not Saddam pretty much keep anything that went into that country while his citizens starved and were told to hate the US cause it was all our fault? But that example like the 60 Minutes N.Korea run was isolated and doesn't truly exist anywhere. It's all rightist propaganda and the press bias.