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December 30, 2004
Well, Hey, We Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Here's a brilliant suggestion:
Speaking by telephone from his home in Vermont, Mr. Leahy, who is the ranking Democrat on the foreign operations subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, urged that a portion of the largely unspent $18 billion for Iraq reconstruction be re-directed for Asian relief efforts.
That's great, let's just roll the money from an earlier unkept obligation... Maybe some of the money promised but also not delivered to the earthquake victims in Bam (one account has only $17 million delivered out of a promised one billion) could be included while we're at it.
Who cares, anyway? All that is necessary is the creation of the perception that we're as generous as we're rich while there's media attention on the story. It's not like many people will be asking questions about the promised aid / reconstruction / elections a month or two from now...
The New York Times editorial on this subject has a reference to a poll, which I had also remarked upon in an earlier column, that shows that "most Americans believe the United States spends 24 percent of its budget on aid to poor countries." The true number is actually under quarter of 1 percent. And that number hides the fact that most of this "aid" goes to bolstering regimes that we need for our imperial network, like Israel and Columbia. I find this a very telling example of the success of the propaganda system.
Posted by zeynep at December 30, 2004 11:05 PM
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