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Originally posted by wonderwench
Yes, we aligned ourselves with Stalin in order to defeat Hitler.
What we've seen is that the world is an imperfect place with many risks and dangers. Sometimes we have to associate with appalling people in order to combat even more appalling people.
You'll get not argument from me on ceasing the vast majority of foreign aid donations. Most of it ends up shoring up tyrants.
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I think that we should shift the focus of our "foreign aid" to actual aid to real people. We don't really give much humanitarian foreign aid per capita...I believe that we are ranked somewhere around thirtieth among industrialized nations. We are number one in military aid, however, which tends to flow to the very tyrants that you mentioned. Why not give that money to some non-tyrants? It's not as if we can't control who we give it to. We are also the number one arms merchant in the world, but I digress....
It seems that you agree with the bipartisan tendency to overlook atrocitites for economic/political motives. As such, it is a bit unfair to accuse Democrats of looking the other way when the party that you support does the very same thing. This triumph of realpolitick is one of the many reasons why I cannot call myself a member of either party and why many Americans are quite suspicious of humanitarian justifications for the war.