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I recommend 100% ignoring anything regarding military and foreign policy you hear in the campaign for US President.  The way it works in US is you have to talk the party line regarding foreign policy (and by extension the military) during the campaign to come off as "Presidential."  What really determines the winner is domestic policy.

Once in office feel free to do whatever you want because 90% of USA is not aware of world outside its doorstep anyhow.  Hence the last 50 years of US foreign policy.  The Marshall Plan was about the last good idea we had in that arena...

by paving on Tue Jun 17th, 2008 at 08:45:03 PM EST
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... uh, hmm, USAID projects are mostly a way to hand pork to businesses in the US while pounding our chest about handing over a massive 0.2% of our GDP, or whatever it is, in foreign aid ...

... lessee ... uh, the Peace Corps? And the Grenadians sure were happy for the Americans to invade / intervene / rescue them (even if you would be hard pressed to find a majority to agree on which one of the three it was).

Well, OK, the Marshall Plan was the last big ticket item.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Wed Jun 18th, 2008 at 07:52:41 PM EST
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