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Originally Posted by pan6467
I disagree with a foreign policy that pays countries that hate us. There is no need to send money to countries such as Saudi Arabia, Isreal, many in Africa, most of the ex-USSR and China/Taiwan that have policies or leadership that do not respect human rights, that take the money and keep it while their people starve. If we want to send aid it should be in the form of food and medicines, it should be sending engineers and workers that can teach those countries how to build an infrastructure.
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I have a problem with the statement about Taiwan not respecting human rights. They're a liberal democracy that does indeed respect human rights. Communist China doesn't respect human rights, but Taiwan isn't part of Communist China. Also, without the US's subsidization of Israel, it would cease to exist within short order due to military intervention by it's enemies. It would not be in the best interest of the US to allow that to happen. Israel isn't the best ally we have, but they certainly still are an ally, and a valuable ally at that. I firmly believe in what JFK said about the "aid any ally, oppose any foe" bit.