Posted on 08/03/2014 12:52:07 PM PDT by Kaslin
That’s a dumb question.
Africa
Germany
Japan
South Korea
Israel
We could stop paying a lot of countries. The order above is the order I would prefer we proceed.
How much did we give Egypt?
"We moved our base camp last night and were now positioned literally
within feet of the river. Have been sitting here watching the border
patrol patrolling in their riverboats all night and all morning..."~Jim Robinson
No. But there are a lot more that should go on that list.
(1 Tim 5:8)Until we take care of our own security [border problems], why should we be concerned with others's problems?
Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
It’s just petty cash compared to the Trillions Obama has Flushed down the toilet
Another way to say that is: Cut off the boys and girls who hate us before we drop the boys and girls who like us.
If the Balloon Head in Chief thinks we need to fund Hamas Spring, we need to give their target a fighting chance.
Obama has America funding and arming and training and protecting Israel’s enemies. This abomination must be corrected and Israel’s enemies (who are also sworn to destroy or subjugate their great Satan USA too) destroyed.
Agree with the article. Israel is a European socialistic state with its economy. She can certainly afford to cut back spending in other areas to bolster Her defense budget
Yes.
I will support anyone who is fighting our muslim enemies, tax away.
My understanding is that continuing foreign aid to Israel was promised by the US at Camp David to convince them to give up the Sinai peninsula. I don’t there was or is anything particularly “pro-Israel” about it.
With all the strings that were attached, and setting the precedent for voluntarily giving up territory, and having given up so much territory, I don’t think it was a good deal for them. They would have been better off without the aid.
I don’t think you’ve kept up on Japan’s military power. They’re fine without us.
How about stopping the money trail to Hamas?
There are lots of twists and turns to this.
Number one is that the US subcontracts a lot of defense research to Israel. That is, we split our research dollars so that US companies can focus on some things, and Israeli companies can focus on other, complementary things.
Importantly, this avoids the endless efforts of the Democrats to derail, sabotage, undermine, and pork-up defense projects that they don’t want America to have.
This especially applies to missile defense projects, which the Democrats are adamant against. (Their only bizarre rationalization being that missile defenses are “provocative”. Which is just insane.)
It also makes sense to subcontract to Israel to create the Iron Dome system, along with the Arrow system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_%28Israeli_missile%29
Why? Because they have no choice but to have to test these programs against real enemy targets. This is a lot more certain than controlled range tests. They can now say without doubt that they work.
And the Israelis are motivated to continually improve these type programs as well. What isn’t said is that their technology is available to the US on rather short notice, if the US needs that technology in a hurry, in say, eastern Europe.
Next up, is that Israel propagates a lot of technology to other countries as well. Especially India, with aggressive China on one side, and aggressive nuclear Pakistan on the other. While China can effectively lean on the US to not oppose them in many things, they have little influence over Israel.
So, all things considered, $3 billion to Israel is very cost effective, especially when you think of how the USG squanders hundreds of billions of dollars on stupid stuff.
Yep. unequivocally and without hesitation.
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