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Originally posted by malvolio: Moki, I respect you as a person (and especially as a programmer). I do think the US has done a lot of good in the world, but we have also done a lot of evil. And now it looks like we are prepared to do a great deal more evil, which saddens me. I will argue that we haven't done nearly as much good as we think we have, though. The last time we had a major foreign-aid program that actually improved the world was the Marshall Plan right after World War II. In recent years, the amount of foreign aid in the US budget has been shrinking drastically, because we have no more "anti-Communist" regimes to prop up. If we're such a force for good in the world, why the hell have we done absolutely nothing about the human tragedy in the Congo? Civil war and its concomitant starvation and disease have killed 3.3 million people there in the past decade, and the US has done nothing! Why not? Oh, I dunno. Maybe because they're black and poor? |
dodged the question, homie.
name a country.
we'll wait.
The question was:
Instead of continuing on your "bash the US" rant, how about answering the question with a specific country that you feel has done more for the world in the past century?
and you didn't come within a hundred miles of answering it.