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To: kvkkc1 who wrote (41113)	9/30/2000 4:38:21 PM
From: Alexandermf	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

kk, Cut it out. I worked on the Middle Eastern Peace Process for many years and I know what I saw;-) I think that may have been to cover my air fare;-) lol

To: kvkkc1 who wrote (41113)	9/30/2000 5:25:37 PM
From: John Lacelle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

kykkc, I would bet that we spend far more dollars in bombs dropped on Third World Countries than in foreign aid. Consider that President Clinton has bombed Iraq, The Sudan, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia. The combined cost of those military actions is around 100 billion dollars. In contrast, we spend about 0.27% of our 1.5 trillion dollar budget on foreign aid. The Clinton Doctrine has concluded that it is far cheaper to bomb nations into submission than it is to try and buy them off. I didn't bother calculating the cost of the war in Somalia since it was a low tech affair (although it was quite lethal resulting in 18 dead Americans and about 1,000 dead Somalis). -John