History repeats itself
I read in the Sunday Buffalo News that King George wants to sell arms to Saudia Arabia and other Persian Gulf nations. He also wants to increase aid to Israel by $30 billion and Egypt by $13 billion. This makes me mad on many levels. First and foremost, doesn’t anybody in Washington remember selling arms to our friends in Afghanistan to fight the Soviet Union? Yeah, that turned out really well. For Bin Laden and friends but not for us. Secondly, I can think of another nation that could benefit from $43 billion in aid. It’s a little nation called the United States of America. Until there are no people living in poverty, until everyone has decent housing, until everyone has health care coverage, and until everyone has access to quality public education our government should be taking care of its own people first. Before we go interfering in other countries we should fix the problems here. I am not against humanitarian aid, but these initiatives are purely military. We should not be helping in any way the further militarism of the world.
