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Originally Posted by Danzig
i've been called worse. and no, much of the funding doesn't go where it was intended. kind of like how the u.n. oil for food program worked out. not very well from what i remember...
and no, we don't have to impose our ideals...we don't have to send money either. i just think we ought to get more bang for our buck. there for a while, afganistan was our #1 recipient of foreign aid-the last few years before we invaded after 9-11.
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fact check
$10.4 billion: Amount of aid the United States pledged for development in Afghanistan from 2002 to 2008. The United States provides a third of all development aid to Afghanistan.
$5 billion: Amount of aid the United States has actually dispersed.
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:...lnk&cd=1&gl=us
Meanwhile Isreal and Egypt both received
$16.76 billion and $11.44 billion respectively and that is only from 2001-2006(one year less)
http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/poli...oreign-aid.htm
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...362402,00.html