Comments on: Is America Cheap on ‘Humanitarian Aid’? http://www.bloggernews.net/112560 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:26:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Nancy Reyes http://www.bloggernews.net/112560#comment-162121 Nancy Reyes Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:20:57 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/112560#comment-162121 This type of "America is cheap" ignores the much larger amounts that private Americans send for aid: From immigrants sending back part of their paychecks to the Gate's millions combatting TB and Malaria. And, of course, the fact that the US is doing much of the policing of the world helps. I mean, how many Norwegian ships are off the coast of Somalia preventing pirates from hijacking aid being sent to Africa via the Suez canal? This type of “America is cheap” ignores the much larger amounts that private Americans send for aid: From immigrants sending back part of their paychecks to the Gate’s millions combatting TB and Malaria.

And, of course, the fact that the US is doing much of the policing of the world helps. I mean, how many Norwegian ships are off the coast of Somalia preventing pirates from hijacking aid being sent to Africa via the Suez canal?

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