11th May 2014, 4:34 PM
I absolutely agree that aid like that is important and we should do more of that. We do do some infrastructure aid, but of course there could be more. But, sometimes just that is not enough... and look at Afghanistan, we've tried some infrastructure there, and a lot of people still hate us. Just that doesn't always help, though of course that that aid came along with a military occupation certainly hurt its effectiveness. But still... aid is great, and America under-rates its effect and gives far too little of it, but sometimes you need to do more. And in cases like Ukraine or Syria, you're clearly in that kind of situation; our issues with Russia aren't the kind of thing that could be solved with aid, I think. For now at least, they'll most likely just ... continue to be an issue, in some form, as they have ever since the end of WWII.