From: Lawrence DeBivort (debivort@umd5.umd.edu)
Date: Sat 07 Dec 2002 - 02:52:59 GMT
Hi Grant,
The US Agency for International Development does a pretty good job of
providing socio-economic development assistance to the third world.
Unfortunately, their three biggest accounts -- as mandated by Congress, are
Israel, Egypt (both as political incentives to remain in the 'peace
process', and Colombia, for the 'war on drugs'. precious little is left
over for true development assistance, yet it is AID that has the singularly
important responsibility to show through action that the US is not all
bluster and threat. They could well and responsibly use any increase in
development funding, and indeed, to his credit, President Bush HAS increased
AID's budget for just this purpose. But the idea of spending even a portion
of what we have thrown at the 'war on terrorism' into genuine assistance
overseas leaves one wondering whether that might not have been a better way
of providing the country with security.
Best regards,
Lawry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
> Of Grant Callaghan
> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 2:19 AM
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: RE: World opinion survey
>
>
> >
> >At 06:05 PM 5/12/02 -0500, you wrote:
> > >Hi, Jeremy, the release date is Dec 4, 2002. I don't know why
> Australia
> > >isn't on it. The Pew Center did the study and should be able to answer
> >the
> > >questions.
> > >
> > >Cheers,
> > >Lawry
> >
> >The release date might be only two days ago( it's the 6th here), but I
> >reckon, on this one, that the data are already stale before they are
> >processed.
> >Jeremy
> >
> >The leader who leads from faith works from a warped version of strength
> >Wade T Smith
> >
>
> On PBS tonight they discussed the survey and there was a suggestion that
> Bush did not like the results. I think he is finally getting the
> idea that
> the results he's getting are a direct reflection of the means he has used
> since assuming office. Someone said that if the U.S. had used
> the billions
> of dollars war is going to cost us to build up the economies of
> the Muslim
> nations, we'd have more people liking us than hating us. Not
> that I think
> it could be done, of course. I mean, who is going to distribute
> the money
> and how? If the same people who are running those countries control the
> money it will end up in the same pockets as before. But it's a
> pleasant day
> dream anyway.
>
> Grant
>
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