William Safire: Follow the money

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/04/21/nyt.safire/index.html ^ | April 21, 2003 | William Safire

[okie01]

o This is just the tip of the iceberg.
o This story is potentially more interesting than the war itself.

Would you care to pat yourself on the back for your prescience?

[Publius6961]

I would love to comment, but anger prevents it. The whole foreign aid and "loans" business is just a fancy name for enslavement of the American taxpayer via diplomacy.
This is all chump change when compared to the continuing foreign aid we chumps pay to nations perfectly able to care for and defend themselves.

France on day announced: NATO --- OUT OF FRANCE NOW! and there was hardly a ripple.

The U.S. is long overdue to do the same with the U.N., with a simultaneous withdrawal from that band of pirates. Let's see how well and smoothly it runs when it no longer has the financial support of the U.S., and the only money it has access to steal is each others'!