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mostly for the sake of actually taking action. we can all feel sorry for what they go through but I don't know why people think we should get involved.
Well young man, I do. The African Rim as been a hub for mass murders and corruption for many years, but I care mostly because of what happen in that part of the world on Oct 3rd, and 4th known as Black Hawk Down or Day of the Rangers. The 75th Rangers, Air Force Combat Controllers, and Tier One Delta engaged the enemy and lost 18 souls and another 73 wounded and a Nightstalker pilot captured trying to free the oppressed, it's called, (de oppresso liber ) you god damn right, I care, these murders need to learn fear. And the best and only way to do that is by sending...
Why does it always have to be USA to help out? Maybe China should do something since they're the new big economy.
I'm sick of American taxes going to helping out random countries. For the amount of money we give in aid to countries that spit in our faces, every homeless person in America could be fed.
You really think the Chinese government cares about other people? I'd rather my tax dollars be spent on rescuing these kidnapped girls than on so many other things we spend the money on.
Ummmm, because we're all humans. Being a person doesn't stop when you leave the borders of whatever country you're in. My life is no more important than than the life of someone in Nigeria.
Ummmm, because we're all humans. Being a person doesn't stop when you leave the borders of whatever country you're in. My life is no more important than than the life of someone in Nigeria.
You really think the Chinese government cares about other people? I'd rather my tax dollars be spent on rescuing these kidnapped girls than on so many other things we spend the money on.
Absolutely. People throw this crap up how good China is and how we are so terrible and call us Colonist and other crap. China will only do what good for China. Russia will do whats good for Russia, and UN peace keepers will sit and watch while people get massacred because the have no bullets in their guns.
We are it, no one else. Well, us and the Brits. We are the only ones with the fortitude to do it. We will look bad in the end just like Somalia and other places but nothing ever got done by sitting on the sidelines.
We are it, no one else. Well, us and the Brits. We are the only ones with the fortitude to do it. We will look bad in the end just like Somalia and other places but nothing ever got done by sitting on the sidelines.
Humanitarian Aid : largest donors (from an August 2011 article), sort to the most current year of 2010:
Source: Humanitarian aid in 2009: headlines from the latest DAC data release:
United States 4806.4
EU Institutions 1604.3
United Kingdom 950.8
Germany 685.2
Japan 537
Spain 500.9
Canada 451.6
Sweden 393.4
France 373.8
Norway 339
Netherlands 297.3
Australia 265.5
Saudi Arabia 255.9
Belgium 235
Italy 231.5
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