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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop [angry drunken ramblings]
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I like you better sober.
It just depends on how you define foreign aid.
I would include private philanthropy by US citizens as foreign aid as well as any costs of deploying our military in foreign lands to the extent it is to protect foreign countries (i.e., south korea, saudia arabia, etc.).
I would agree that having our military in places like Columbia to fight drug lords probaby serves our interest enough and the problem is caused by our failure to treat drug addiction in the US so as to not count it as foriegn aid. But Iraq is a mixed bag. Certainly the cost of rebuilding Iraq is foriegn aid.
So unless we can even discuss what is and what is not foriegn aid, we cannot come to an understanding of what we each are referring to when we use that term.
