[Cicero]

Regretably a huge percentage of the foreign aid being offered to the third world these days consists of family planning: condoms, stealth tubal litigations, forced abortions, contraceptive pills and technologies we consider unsafe for use in our own country.

Moreover, other forms of aid are usually conditional on changing the laws in poor countries so as to legalize abortion. If you don't legalize abortion, you don't get any aid or loans.

So, another way of putting it is that probably the Netherlands is first per capita at killing third-world babies and decimating the population of Africa.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"So, another way of putting it is that probably the Netherlands is first per capita at killing third-world babies and decimating the population of Africa."

Good point.

[marron]

Regretably a huge percentage of the foreign aid being offered to the third world these days consists of family planning: condoms, stealth tubal litigations, forced abortions, contraceptive pills and technologies we consider unsafe for use in our own country.

What I observed is that European NGO's are hard at work organizing indigenous organizations to oppose economic development. The tribes are very political, their leadership has the dubious advantage of Euro advisors who council them on how best to obstruct economic investment. They do this by organizing mass demonstrations, coups, national strikes. The people themselves have no clue what they are doing to themselves, they trust their leaders and their leaders are leftists who are advised by Euro leftists.

The Euros are also very active in Latin American countries on the environmental front, with the same end, trying to shut down economic investment.

Then you have the Euro NGO's working with the coca farmers, giving them aid and direction and organizing uprisings against the central government. Whatever your opinion ahout the drug war, you will find that among those organizing the uprisings among the farmers are Euro social workers who are paid by Euro NGO's.

So when you are comparing US aid versus Euro aid, it is important to qualify exactly what that aid is and what it does.