Exactly.
Instead of spending a gazillion dollars fighting people who don't know or understand, how about spending it fighting unsafe drinking water, illiteracy, disease, or any of the host of real problems the human race is beset with?
Instead of being the Great Satan we could be the Great Santa.
I can't help but think that would be better for our own US security than yet another ill begotten war.
Tom
Well distributed non-military AID I suspect could go a long way. In my experience, most people who have three meals a day, an access to shelter and education, and a way to work, don't want to give that up to go die in a war over idealism, and religious idealism on top of that. Obviously not always, but mostly.
It would be certainly harder for the world to hate us when we are dropping food and not bombs on their homelands.
The biggest challenge there is just to make sure AID money doesn't get siphoned off by corruption.
None of it really bothers me to be honest, except in context of the larger spending plan on our government. To think how many times I've heard that America can't afford Universal Healthcare, but for some reason we throw billions of dollars at poorly implemented, dumb plans, and have no problem unquestioningly doing that, to be quite insulting to people who basically can't afford it in the first place.
It's that sort of stupidity that makes have little interest in being an American, let alone contributing to America in anyway.
