Saw this linked on Facebook by Cody Postier.
Liberal think tank, so I'm guessing they're against all of the >$1B foreign military aid and for most of the other kinds of aid :-)
What are the big dollar items?
- $2.62B total funding to Afghanistan
- $2.22B military funding to Israel
- $1.45B total funding to Pakistan (I include all funding here since most of this aid is a product of the war in Afghanistan)
- $1.04B military funding to Egypt
Total of these items: $7.29B
How would you change this? Go back in your time machine and never attack Afghanistan? Cut all military foreign aid? If we did something like that, some American jobs would be lost at Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Rockwell Collins et al. Some Congresspeople would go berserk.
Stipulated: Adequate defense prevents aggression.
But we're way beyond that. And to what degree are the industrial nations of the world arming the other nations of the world against one another in a proliferating way?
There are no easy answers, of course.
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