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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If USAID information is in a scif the there is something seriously amiss. [/quote]

Not really. Many of USAID’s overseas foreign partners don’t want to be advertised in their home country as taking US money. It can be dangerous on the ground for them. USAID reps take confidential meetings with foreign government representatives; those discussions would be classified. China is always trying to undercut USAID or sabotage projects, so we need to work carefully and discreetly.

You get that foreign aid is a competition, right? We are competing with Russia and China to influence these foreign governments [/quote]

Why is it a competition?  [b]So it is a foreign influence/opposition-in-other/countries funding mechanism? [/b]Are the American people really signing up for this?

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You say that like it’s a bad thing. I like America First and spreading our influence, values, and democracy. I’d also rather have stable developing countries, lowering the risk of refugee and health crises.

Yes, the American people signed up for this. it was established by law by Congress and enacted via EO by President Kennedy. The U.S. - by law - is required to have a foreign aid agency. [/quote]

It is a bad thing. I don’t think we should be colonizing the planet with our values and influence.  That’s a white supremacist/Nazi mindset.    Especially when other governments feel we are funding internal opposition within their domestic affairs.  I know I don’t want other governments influencing our domestic affairs—like Russian Facebook election meddling.

GWB blew through trillions of dollars and killed hundreds of thousands spreading democracy.  I thought we learned our lesson about the folly there.

Mutually beneficial, non-coercive trade sounds great. Why are health initiatives, development and refugee prevention so secretive?[/quote]

Helping prevent the spread of bird flu, aids and Ebola is not "colonizing"[/quote]

Keep in mind that addressing the AIDS epidemic is absolutely a selfish American interest when you consider how viruses mutate extensively in immunocompromised individuals (HIV positive and not on antiviral meds are all immunocompromised). [/quote]

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