“I no longer support the president, but I do favor and support this mission.”
Given that we have numerous Americans needing medical aid, why would you support America giving free medical aid to those whose governments are socialistic, anti-American, ad nauseam?
We ain’t doing that.
Colombia is 100% rightwing and locked in a life and death struggle with marxist narcoterrorists who have a 1% approval rating (from the terrorists themselves). Its antidoper specialists are fighting side by side with our men in Afghanistan and Iraq and they fear nothing. They sent swamp and jungle extrication specialists to New Orleans during Katrina to rescue people.
Panama is 100% proAmerican and its population recently voted to expand the Canal, going into debt to do it, a move that will bring lower walmart prices to us as the cost of transport gets cut. They cut our prices, which is a lot more than the Democrats, who want to raise taxes, can say. They put money in our pockets and they are big fans of America.
El Salvador has troops dying alongside ours in Iraq and its president is considered the Rush Limbaugh of Latin America. He regularly denounces even soft socialism because it always takes away people’s freedom. The guy rocks.
I could go on. The ones getting the aid boat are all worthy, though there are a few on the fence of populism because they don’t know anybetter, like Ecuador - those are the ones whose hearts and minds must be won over from communism.
The antiamerican regimes in the hemisphere are: Cuba, Bolivia and Venezuela.
We have given foreign aid for sixty years. There are both sound humanitarian reasons and sound geopolitical reasons for it. This is a particularly good and efficient example of foreign aid. If you’re against helping other people as long as there are needy people in this country, you simply don’t understand the world we live in. There is far more available to needy people in this country than there is in the countries we’re helping with this mission. The fact that some of them have socialist governments isn’t a factor to take into account. We’re providing this assistance directly, not through these governments.
People like you, who not only can’t think straight, but sound utterly callous toward the rest of the world, give conservatives a bad name.