Originally posted by: JediSage
Yeah, 'cause everyone knows poverty will go away if you just throw money at it and have rock concerts (sell those t-shirts!).
Originally posted by: theredbaron
Better still, that money could have been used to eliminate world poverty. The U.S. annual military expenditure is $3 trillion. Why not use that money to eliminate the conditions that produce terrorists: like poverty, despondancy, hunger, disease, and revenge?
If America was an unequivocally benevolent superpower in this world, any terrorists that remained would have no leg to stand on - they would be evil beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Better still, that money could have been used to eliminate world poverty. The U.S. annual military expenditure is $3 trillion. Why not use that money to eliminate the conditions that produce terrorists: like poverty, despondancy, hunger, disease, and revenge?
If America was an unequivocally benevolent superpower in this world, any terrorists that remained would have no leg to stand on - they would be evil beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Yeah, 'cause everyone knows poverty will go away if you just throw money at it and have rock concerts (sell those t-shirts!).
no it wont. but neither will spending billions of dollars on a war which is making certain areas more worse of and poor than they already were.
and we're not talking about throwing money in the literal sense as you are making it seem. i guarantee that if any non profit organization were given that money to spend on a village in need of a new school or hospital or medical supplies, there would be a huge amount of volunteers to help build it.
ya it may not make that village the best place to live in the world but its at least making them better off. perhaps allowing them to seek medical treatment. or recieve an education. things we take for granted.
but your logic is right. throwing money into killing people is better than throwing money into saving people.