tickleandrose wrote on May 25
th, 2018 at 12:56pm:
I disagree. Foreign aid is not only about helping the needy. Its about increasing leverage for diplomacy. Indonesia is critical, in terms of containing China, especially in the South China sea. Indonesia is also important ideological battle ground. Saudi Arabia for example, also invests hundreds of millions into schools, universities, to promote their brand of ideology. We need to do the same to counter that. Withdrawing out foreign aid, would just give the others a free ticket.
Nah
Stop the aid and build up a nuclear arsenal
Indomonkeyland is not that big
2 or 3 Nukes would be all we need to clean that part of the world quite adequately .
Stop the aid
As was once said, slightly differently
SPEAK QUIETLY AND CARRY A BIG STICK
Or as Al Capone once said
You accomplish more with a smile, a handshake and a gun than you do with just a smile and a handshake.
Aesop
Never trust the advice of a man ( or country) in difficulties.