Kasz216 on 23 December 2008
| akuma587 said: We pour a lot of money into Middle Eastern countries on a yearly basis that you never even hear about. We have given Pakistan over $10 billion in the past few years as "reimbursements" for helping us fight terrorism. And this is incredibly common. You'd be shocked if you saw how much money (or weapons that cost a lot of money) we have given to Israel. You don't hear people who complain about the government bailing out the Big Three complaining about this kind of activity. I'm not saying that we should just completely isolate ourselves from the Middle East, but that we need to be way more careful than we have been. And this isn't the kind of activity we should be doing when we are dead broke as a country. |
See I just thought you were talking about the directly getting into the fight stuff.
Yeah we give a lot of stuff to Israel and money to Pakistan... though i'd argue the money in Pakistan was doing helpful things for us. (though once again not all moral.)
Giving straight cash to countries is actually one of the bigger moves to accomplishing good political relationships.
Giving weapons, eh, it dpends what we're giving them. Haven't really paid much attention.
Either it's stuff we aren't using, or stuff we're making anyway so it kinda does help our economy in some way... and we know that those weapons have little chance of being used against us.
(Heck we give and sell weapons to people we know likely will use them against us later.)
