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Tom, not all of it is wheat (as I already told you).

No, as I already told you, it was $28 million, with 5 million in food commodities and $10 million in "livelihood and food security" programs.

I can get it directly from the State Department website if you'd like.

I truly don't mean to sound condescending but, trust me, it isn't always as it's reported via CNN, the State Department and other [liberal or conservative] sources.

Of course "it" (whatever "it" is) isn't always reported via CNN. But since "this" was, your point is irrelevant. If you want to claim we are covertly aiding the Taliban with cash or military aid, go ahead, you won't be the first. But don't insult our intelligence by claiming that a well publicized humanitarian aid package, was somehow secretly converted by the UN into cash to prop up the Taliban.

I'm not really being fair here. I should tell you that I work for an 'NGO' in Washington that occasionally distributes 'foreign aid'.

Yea? And? If you are that in the loop, how could you not know that the $43 million you spoke of was NOT cash, but humanitarian aid. That is a pretty easily verifaiable fact.

While I have no particular knowledge in this instance

.....ahem.......

I have enough personal experience in the area to believe my Grandfather's admonishon to "don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see".

Which is why I choose to believe NOTHING you tell me.