thichi,
sorry if i indeed skipped important points...maybe you can list them.
yes foreign aid money often disappears...not just american but also european.
about this 1 trillion dollars ...what exactly does this include? ...also how much did for instance germany pay in comparison? AND...how much did the US suck out of latin america and the rest of the world? i am afraid you really believe in santa claus if you think the US gov. is distributing money to the world for pure reasons.
The result is debt, dependency and poverty.
oh please... the poverty in US is not caused by foreign aid programs...this is a weird connection.
cut the military budget by half and all the problems are solved.
about your joke....this is such a lame old nonsense...al bundy used that 10 years ago. the french faught bravely in WWI and were simply unprepared for WWII.
by the way...i do not believe for one second that the french have pure motives in this current conflict. of course they care only about the oil...just like the US does...has Bush a right to blame them??? i don't think so!
Past or present, history has proven you wrong.
how so?
Your example of a better leader is amusing at best.
how so? i would really like to see the source of that info about mossadeq...i have seen many reports about iran and the unifying theme was that mossadeq was a man whose main interest was to help his country. Noone i have heard claims that about the shaw whose main interest was to put his friends etc. into leading positions. who do you think profited from his land reform and why if he was such a great leader did these nutcase muslim fundamentalists get the support of the population to overthrow the shah???
Your example only gave the power to the State.
no... it gave the money to iran instead of wealthy european and american oil companies. i find that more than justified.
US aid the last fifty years is unmatched. Japan, NATO, South Korea all attest to this.
quot erat demonstrandum...where is the statistic showing this?
also...who said the US has to put so much money into NATO? the US has its weapons program regardless of NATO and what europe does.
You cant have it both ways, unless you just want US funds with no US involvement.
what exactly do you mean? that it would be unfair of a nation that was not completely destroyed by the US to ask for help?
honestly...i am not extremely grateful to someone who first wipes out all cities and then gives a lousy aid program to prevent the countries from falling under communist rulership. the money given to germany amounts to something like 20 billion dollars (todays value). not exactly a gigantic amount of money considering the 350 billion military budget.
i am not saying the US is worse than the other free countries...but it is for sure not better either. what makes the US especially dangerous is its military power...thats the only difference.
