Click to check out some startling graphs of our five largest foreign aid requests with one based on size of request, the next based on size of request per capita, and then that nations GDP per capita. Hint: Israel is by far the largest in the first, and its BY FARRRRR the largest in the next two. So...why? --- Its just that American foreign aid mostly isnt economic assistance to needy people or needy countries. If it were, India would get more aid than Israel and Haiti would get more aid than Egypt. Instead, the bulk of the money is spent on buying American military equipment, serving as a kind of indirect subsidy to the military-industrial complex. Thats part of how a country like Israel that isnt objectively hard-up for money winds up getting more assistance than anyone else. Israel does have a healthy appetite for advanced military hardware, and its considered a geopolitically reliable nation that can be trusted with it. So American foreign policy is committed to helping Israel maintain a qualitative military advantage vis-à-vis other Middle Eastern countries.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 18:54:32 +0000
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