If we really wanted to give people foreign aid we'd give them farming equipment and supplies for infrastructure to support and repair the country, not make them dependent on the handouts made for posterity's sake than any real attempt to help them. Hell, that sums up most political blather and horseshit, don't take any steps to root out the problem, just put a penny into the hat and be assured that the next day, the hat will be there for you to put a penny into again day after day.
Sadly, I must agree with you. Ultimately, the penny is cheaper because it requires less thought and makes the government look better while doing very little. Quick easy fix and you get to use someone else's penny.
"Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times". This is not completely true nor is necessarily wrong but, it does seem to present itself repeatedly in our society. It's all to easy for us to get complacent because we currently have strength. And that complacency blinds people to the enemies we have that are just waiting for a weakness to present itself to strike.
They are but they're nowhere near as powerful as they used to be. So yeah, basically destroyed is a good way to put it.
Anyway I hate to explain my jokes but the point was, at the height of ISIS's power almost every US war hawk was fear mongering about them as if they could just invade the US at any moment, and using it to justify further bloating up the military budget.
Well, they kind of did. They were recruiting American citizens and had enough power to create their own state. Al Qaeda was scared of them and Al Qaeda came in and out of the States on a whim.
Right, right, they invented the concept of global Jihad and all that. But they never would reach the power to invade the US. The thing about these terrorist organizations is that they get created by local issues. In many cases, such as with the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (note: not affiliated with the Taliban), these terrorist organizations begin in rural areas where the local government doesn't have the power to effectively enact justice or even infrastructure. Oftentimes these groups begin as vigilantes in high crime areas abandoned by the local government and only radicalize later on, but in most cases their core remains local. Yes ISIS made instructional videos and stuff like that, radicalizing people in other countries and making them do terrorist attacks, but they wouldn't be able to get enough manpower to actually invade the US in a million years.
I mean, if you're over there killing civilians and bombing hospitals and schools, this is the kind of retaliation you should expect. But there was no evidence they posed a threat beyond that. And even if they did, bombing even more of the country's schools and hospitals isn't really the way to go, is it?
Anyway I hate to explain my jokes but the point was, at the height of ISIS's power almost every US war hawk was fear mongering about them as if they could just invade the US at any moment, and using it to justify further bloating up the military budget.
Fucking Statists.
Oh man this is pure gold!
Who's next?