I agree with you on that. One thing I do know is that foreigners are scared to death of the Tea Party. Perhaps they fear their aid will be cut off.
One other thing I know is that we can't buy friends, and shouldn't be in the business of trying to buy friends. Since all the evidence suggests it doesn't work.
We supported OBL until he turned on us. We supported Saddam until he turned on us. We supported Hamas to counter Arafat. Then they got elected. We supported the Mubarak regime until his demise.
I'm thinking we need to re-consider our foreign policy.
When I say “we supported,” I am talking about “we the taxpayers.” It was the idiots in charge of our money that supported these dictators, and terrorists. So, to be clear, we the taxpayers had no say. Since if I, as a taxpayer, had any say in these matters, I would have said, hell no.
It is a complete falsehood, AND YOU SHOULD KNOW IT, that we “supported” OBL. In FACT, we supported his rival, Massoud, who he killed right before 9/11 via suicide photographer. But you probably are going to claim that Bush sent the planes into the World Trade Center.
It is also false that we “supported” Saddam in any significant way outside providing his military with intelligence when he was fighting Iran. Almost all of his weapons and equipment were from France and Russia with some engineering help from Germany. We did not put him into power or help him stay there. You should also know this if you have any real interest in foreign affairs.
Nor did we support Hamas against Arafat.
These accusations are straight out of the Code Pink playbook. They verge on the delusional.
As to any government by Tea Party cutting off foreign aid, it won’t happen. Since most of the funds are actually spent in this country it would have a negative economic impact. And it would serve no real purpose except to make trouble for anyone who is allied with us.
You may not be able to BUY friends but you can help them.
“We supported OBL until he turned on us.”
No we didn’t.
There were TWO distinct Mujahideen groups who fought the Soviets in Afghanistan.
The first were made up of Afghans and they were supported by the United States and our allies. This first group later became the Northern Alliance.
The second group (which UBL, KSM, and al-zawahiri belonged to) was supported by the arab states. This group later became the taliban and alqaeda.
And we never supported hammas either.