Reply #25: So, in order to merit U.S. aid, a country has to put up with the U.S. ambassador fomenting

[Peace Patriot]

civil war and supporting riots and pipeline blowups? Your second statement doesn't make sense. Our aid should be used for purposes of mutual benefit, and for humanitarian purposes. Why should it be contingent upon U.S. gross interference in the country's internal affairs? Of course that's how the Bushites look at the world. 'Let us bully and exploit you, dictate to your government, use you in our geopolitical war games, fuck your society over, and topple any good governments that you manage to elect, in exchange for booty from our war profiteers and agricultural predators.'

The situation is so unjust, and the Bushwhacks are so wrong, it's hard to fathom why you would punish Bolivia by withdrawing all aid, for kicking this malefactor out of their country. It's as if you identify with the Bushwhacks.

The Bushwhacks have horribly misused our tax dollars (not to mention their grand theft of our tax dollars). If you mean that our tax dollars shouldn't be going to this and every other fascist cabal in South America, that our money shouldn't be misused this way, I agree. But it sounds as if you are offended that the Morales government would object to this misuse. On the other hand, you say you hope it starts a trend. So I don't really get what you are saying. Are you saying that, since the Bushwhacks have bankrupted us, we will have to stop giving aid anyway, and a trend of kicking the U.S. out will provide the excuse? That kind of makes sense.

It's amazing how we can lard military aid, in the billions of dollars, on countries like Colombia, Georgia and Israel, but can't afford to alleviate poverty, even at home. We somehow have plenty of bucks to buy guns, bullets, rifles, rockets, helos and all manner of military equipment, including paying military salaries, and, in the case of the "war on drugs," additionally paying Big Chem for toxic pesticides and spraying equipment, yet dire poverty goes completely unaddressed. And not only that, we are never any more secure for these trillions of dollars in expenses--we are much more insecure--and the cocaine just keeps flowing out of Colombia onto our streets.

Odd, huh? I'd be for our aid doing some good in the world--if we still have anything to give, after the Bushfucks and their Corpos are done with us. And it would NO STRINGS aid. It would be mutual benefit (and I don't mean Corpo benefit) and humanitarian aid. But that is NOT what is happening now. 'Our' aid (our tax dollars, Bushite purposes) is so far gone to corruption and wrongful purposes that it is, in many cases, a positive menace to the people whom the Bushites, utterly hypocritically, claim to be benefiting. The use of USAID funds in South America is a good example--going to RIGHTWING political groups, thugs and terrorists, who, if they re-gained power, would be throwing leftists out of airplanes and piling up the 'disappeared' in mass graves. Our tax money is contributing to every bad cause in South America! It is appalling.