9th May 2014, 9:21 AM
In the past, the US gave aid to countries in the form of building schools, hospitals and infrastructure. Those things directly improved the quality of life of the people IN those countries. Nowadays we've just been giving their leadership money, which they spend, generally, on military to go against us.
It would be better if we stopped the financial aid in favor of REAL "nation building" like we used to do. Nations where the populace love us because of things we're directly giving them tend to have less reason to attack us. In those events, we don't need to worry as much about direct military intervention later on.
It would be better if we stopped the financial aid in favor of REAL "nation building" like we used to do. Nations where the populace love us because of things we're directly giving them tend to have less reason to attack us. In those events, we don't need to worry as much about direct military intervention later on.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)