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Originally Posted by zen_tom
I agree, but I do think that there are selfish benefits that can be highlighted - whether it's Africa, The Middle East, or the areas suffering after the Tsunami, a fully funded, sustained and serious developmental effort would reap vast rewards for all concerned.
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Such as?
The currently accepted major threat to the US is global terrorism, and specifically anti-American targetted terrorism.
Funding massive amounts of US aid to sub-Saharan Africa will do little or nothing to address that. Funding aid to the tsunami devasted countries will, and it could be argued that the war in Iraq has the same goal.
Mr Mephisto