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Originally Posted by delilahjed44  The truth is..we will always have poverty stricken people with us with 3rd world countries, and as DA said..troubled times right here in our own backyard. We help out as much as possible to other countries in need. As the president of the United States of America..I duly believe he should have matters here tied up first and foremost. Thats why he is the President of the United States,,to take care of America first.
I like to believe his judgment with the war was just that..watching out for the United States so they dont invade us again..possibly during his term. Some say..if we weren't there they would be here..I don't know..but 911 indicates that possibility..
Its not to sound as though I dont care but no..I think the money should aid America first with our own economic hardship..as said earlier..we have been helping other countries forever in a day..we cant cure everything..
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Unfortunately it is probably true that there will always be poor people. But not just in 3rd world countries. I can see the logic of wanting to spend the money fixing problems 'at home' rather than helping someone else, but one can't help but look at the USA defence budget and wonder:
Armed Forces - m12 - The Finances of Defence - Top Level Budget Holders - Equipment Expenditure
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like to say I am an optimist - that I think one day the boundaries of countries that maintain the 'Us and Them' mentality of the world, will become less important, as International organisations of cooperation (like the EU, ans similar things I have heard proposed for Asia/Australia, and for Africa) flourish. But really I am not that optimistic - I see humans, collectively, as a basically selfish species (there are plenty of exceptions on an individual scale). As long as it is possible to exploit one another, the boundaries between rich and poor will continue. And that applies both within each country, between rich and poor individuals, and internationally, between rich and poor nations. And as long as exploitation continues, there will be pockets of fury amongst the exploited, which can grow to become acts of violence, both targeted and random.
I think I've made it very clear in various other threads that I don't believe the whole justification for the Iraq war for a moment. An act of terrorism, horrible though it may be, is not an invasion of the USA. An invasion is what the USA did to Iraq. And invading Iraq was in no way striking back at those that perpetrated the 9/11 event anyway - Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11.