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Originally posted by Skeks in the city
Regardless, I believe foreign aid AND war/military action is bad policy except to the extent the spending/action directly benefits US citizens. Judged on that basis, I think humanitarian aid to India is OK so long as some paranoid bastard is watching the money like a hawk so it's not ripped off by corrupt locals or pissed away by pie in the sky lefties. (By the same standard, the Iraq war was unjustifiable.)
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Does anyone think that government funds should ever be spent other than for the benefit of US citizens? Isn't the disagreement entirely over how broadly you define "benefit?"
