Foreign aid is kind of tricky. From what I have heard the money given in aid comes back to the US anyway. We don’t give them free arms. They have to buy it and the follow on maintenance contracts have to be done by US or allies contractors.
This is also how non weapon aid works.
“Foreign aid is kind of tricky. From what I have heard the money given in aid comes back to the US anyway. We don’t give them free arms. They have to buy it and the follow on maintenance contracts have to be done by US or allies contractors.
This is also how non weapon aid works.”
Here we have our government trusting a bunch of genetically defective early off shoots of the primordial soup with F16s yet not trusting law abiding US Citizens with hand held weapons. Makes you wonder which side of the fence the US government is currently on and certainly the State Department (which contains the highest number of communists per capita of any government agency).
In actuality, the crony capitalism of which you speak is even more reason to completely eliminate foreign aid. My reasoning is, without exception, anything or organization that gets big becomes evil. Be it big government, big religion, big business they all abuse their power. However, when you allow government and business to partner with our political enemies you have a Lord Acton moment on steroids. [Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely]