<To do what you're advocating, we'd have to be PERMITTED by the tyranny in charge, to distribute those resources properly.>
Hamas isn't "permitted" by Israel, to organize in Gaza, yet they manage. Hezbollah wasn't exactly welcomed, in Lebanon. The Viet Minh weren't "permitted" by the French. Mao was welcomed with repeated scorched-earth campaigns, by the Koumintang and Japanese, wherever he tried to set up "liberated zones". If we are going to defeat organizations like this, we have to recognize and learn ourselves, the successful techniques they use.
If we ever set out to counter the Wahabi propaganda, with a serious and comprehensive counter-message, the Saudis would fight us with everything they have. Including another oil embargo. Which is why Energy Independence is crucial, to change the balance of power, and allow us to pursue a HeartsAndMinds campaign against them. Our passivity in the face of the Saudi's permanent virulent attack on the Enlightenment ideals, is due to our economic dependance.
<To ensure that such funding is properly distributed, it must occur outside of the ruling regime, or with direct oversight and accountability to the providers of that aid.>
Virtually none of American "foreign aid" helps poor people in poor countries. It isn't intended to. Its purpose, is to bribe governments and elites in those nations, to tie them to us, and for domestic political reasons. Why are Israel and Egypt the biggest recipients of our "aid"? Is it because Israelis and Egyptians are the most needy people we could find on the planet? Of course not. |
