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Originally posted by pan6467
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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I'm struggling to convey this without resorting to a strawman. How about this: If you really are leftist and liberal, do you like the way to US appears to the world right now? Do you think the government represents your opinion? Are you an "average American"?
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Originally posted by pan6467
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.
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Yeah, I'm going to say it for the third time: You don't understand how foreign aid works. It's not a pile of money that we hand over and never ask after again. A lot of US foreign aid is military aid; money that they use to buy US weapons from us.
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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.
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That was a little garbled. I'm not exactly sure what you were arguing there. Maybe that was supposed to be sarcasm?