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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s fun is that our effective counter-terrorism measures have been decimated by the dismantling of USAID. Our abominable foreign policy will absolutely increase terrorism. [/quote]

USAID has been utterly ineffective in addressing global terror, if that was even part of its remit.  Instead, it was simply a mechanism for transferring U.S. wealth and supplies to foreign countries, for better or for worse.  Counterterror benefits, if any, would have been extremely abstract, unquantifiable, and frankly improbable.  [/quote]
Soft power is inherently abstract and unquantifiable.[/quote]

And is, in consequence, no form of actual power at all.  It is merely wishful thinking.  [/quote]

Yep, and why should we bribe foreign countries not to attack us anyway.
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USAID made us more hated in many places, as they tried to export their own values, which were often at odds with local culture.[/quote]

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