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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (153582)	12/7/2004 4:45:45 PM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You wouldn't know it from the press, but Israel and South Africa have the highest standards of living on the continent. I hope Bush picks Lieberman as ambassador to the UN. * * *

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (153582)	12/7/2004 4:57:59 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Actually I picked those questions because they go to the root of why so many people around the world do not see America as a benign force. Funny that, of all places, the vast majority of the oppressed, poor, and dispossessed dream of coming here. Hell, they'll get into shark-infested waters on a piece of lumber hoping the Gulf Stream will somehow wash them up on our shores. Horrible place, America. Absolutely amazing, incredible, in my view, that a nation which is not picture perfect but is head and shoulders above all the rest of the tyrants, is continually castigated, demeaned, and, yes, hated, by foreigners and its own citizens alike when in point of fact our standards are so much higher than those of the critics that the comparison is really no comparison at all. I hear incredible BS about America being the premier terrorist state and wonder why is it that anyone who honestly thinks such a thing live here? If I somehow was unlucky enough to have lived in Iraq during the Saddam years, a country which according to the standards expressed here was better than the US, you can bet that all of my efforts would have been geared to leaving. The stench of hypocrisy permeates the notion.

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (153582)	12/7/2004 5:05:07 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

US-AID is a good example of how US foreign aid works in many cases. It is meant to benefit both the US and the foreign country. This pocket of money provides financing for students in foreign countries to go to graduate school. The student signs a contract agreeing not to work in their native country for two years after receiving the degree. They must earn the degree at an American University. So, the work on the degree contributes to the knowledge base at XYZ American University and the money actually is returned to the American economy. The country of origin benefits by having a more educated work force. Naturally countries like Egypt receives more than countries like Congo because the US benefits more from their economic entanglement with Egypt. It is more diplomatic than benevolent.