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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] Bullshit- the US first [i]became[/i] a superpower by [i]not[/i] giving away the farm and concentrating on industry in the post-WWII era. Spreading itself too thin led to the demise of that [i]other[/i] superpower...and an enourmous deficit coupled with [i]increased[/i] spending drove in the nails. Not something I want to see happen to my country. <small> Republicans dont read much history, I guess.</small> Besides all this, what does the 40 plus million in Lebanese aid get us? Is there some tally on how the money is used or is it just a gift <small>bribe</small> to get the government to be friendly/ not outwardly hostile to us? I've seen a lot of guys with money and no [i]real[/i] friends from that. [QUOTE]To turn Lebanon's weak government into a strong one and thereby take some wind out of Hezbollah's sails, since one of the biggest reasons for its popularity in the south is that it renders services the government (being, you know, weak) can't? [/QUOTE]You think throwing money at the problem will make it go away? Only if that money [i]really[/i] goes to humanitarian aid and it all has an indellible "A gift from the U.S.A." stamp on it- otherwise it's just a bribe and any good the money does will be taken credit for by local politicians- possibly Hezbollah ones. Also, as noted earlier, a goodly chunk of the Lebanese government [i]already is[/i] Hezbollah, so it's tough to support one without supporting the other...now if there were a way to sever Hezbollah's external funding while the international community funded the diffrence, [i]that[/i] would undermine Hezbollah's influence. Where does the rest of the world come in regarding funding to Lebanon? I wonder if the US (and all countries that give foreign aid) are going about things all wrong: why not take ALL the available money and permanantly fix ONE country's problems at a time, as a kind of "here's a fresh start- dont blow it, cause it's all you get" sorta thing? <small> we can sorta do this allready by forgiving the impossible-to-ever-payback loans crippling Africa</small> I'd start with the U.S.- spread that cash among the poorest 1% right here at home, then move on to Africa and so on... Knowing human nature, every country that was [i]not[/i] that year's benifeciary would attack the ones that already [i]were[/i]... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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