One addendum, though. If you think this is going to buy us good will in areas determined to hate us anyway, I think you're being overly optimistic. Sometimes I think that it's our effectiveness at this sort of thing that creates some of the animosity.
Please note the vast gratitude we got from the Muslim world for saving the Muslims from massacres in Bosnia. Hell, we just gave millions to the Palestinians.
On the other hand, maybe that just proves our motives aren't political.
On the gripping hand, Indonesia is an OPEC member.
I wish the contribution of the private sector was getting more publicity. To read a lot of the news stories comparing one country to the next, you'd think the private contributions didn't even exist. In some nations, the private contributions have actually outrun the contributions of their governments, and even in the U.S., they are catching up rapidly with the $350 million mark. Of course, that doesn't count the military contributions of our government.
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All good points.
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- Submitted for discussion...
- More links from Tim Blair...
- re: Submitted for discussion...
- How many bases does the UN have? How many helicopters?
- All their bases are belong to us (n/t)
- Fine. Then maybe the U.N. should start remembering who's doing the heavy lifting.
- PS: You made an interesting choice of board for a discussion.
- Even if..........