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Well, looks like you may not be happy with where your foreign aid is going. In 1994, the top nations receiving US aid were 1) Israel $3.0 B, 2) Egypt, $2.1 B, and 3) Russia, $1.4 B. In 2004, the situation had changed slightly with the Billion Dollar Aid Club line-up being 1) Iraq $18.44 B, 2) Israel $2.62 B, 3) Eypt $1.87 B, and 4) Afghanistan $1.77 B.
I will not attempt to explain the rationale of paying nations not to go to war with each other.
In case you were unaware, the 1973 gas crisis was largely because the US decided to stand by Israel and rushed air to air and anti-tank missiles to them when they ran short in the Seven Day War.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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