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The only reason various parts of the world tolerate the US is the many the BILLIONS & BILLIONS of $$$$$ the US "donates" every year to those countries. Let's start withholding those $$ for use at home or truly friendly allies.
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Much of the funding is for FMF and FMS programs (Foreign Military Funding and Foreign Military Spending). These are US taxpayer dollars given to mostly Israel and Egypt. This money must be spent back in the US and is mostly for military/communications gear. I think these "investments" attempt to keep the Arabs and Jews from killing one another and to a lesser degree, provide us a "listening post" in various regions of the middle east. For example, Iraq and Afghanistan...guess who's in the middle? Our buddy...Mahmoud Imanutjob. The unfortunate part is sometimes these "investments" don't pan out so well....