Re: [ga] A Monroe Doctrine for the Internet

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andy and all former DNSO GA members or other interested stakeholders/users,

Prey tell, how is this diatribe relevant to the subject line of this
thread?

Andy Gardner wrote:

> US Military aid? Isn't that an Oxymoron?
>
> I guess you think what you're doing in Iraq right now is military aid?
>
> The best aid the USA could give the world would be to ban it from
> ever formulating any more "foreign policy" and stop trying to (badly)
> fix it's prior mistakes.
>
> Oh, and disbanding the CIA. That's ANOTHER oxymoron.
>
> On Nov 11, 2005, at 10:01 AM, kidsearch wrote:
>
> > I'll just consider the source. I suppose you factored in all the
> > military
> > aid, not just humanitarian aid? I didn't think so. Did you also
> > include the
> > money given tto the UN? I didn't think so. Is our children
> > learning? is a
> > good bush joke, so your post wasn't completely nonsensical.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Andy Gardner" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "kidsearch" <kidsearch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: <rbhauptman@xxxxxxx>; <ga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 11:48 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ga] A Monroe Doctrine for the Internet
> >
> >
> >
> > On Nov 8, 2005, at 11:15 AM, kidsearch wrote:
> >
> >> So, I gather that you can give a list of countries that have given
> >> more aid to 3rd world countries than the USA has.
> >
> > Japan, but that's only if you look at the total dollar figure. If you
> > take it on e per-capita basis or % of GDP, the USA is well down the
> > list. Quoting http://www.realityofaid.org/roareport.php?
> > table=roa2002&id=21
> >
> > "Total aid from all 22 DAC donor countries in 2000 was US$53.7
> > billion, down 0.4% in real terms from 1999. Japan and the USA were
> > the largest donors in cash terms, with Germany the UK and France also
> > giving from US$4 billion to just over US$5 billion. (See Graph 16).
> >
> > While donors from G7 countries with large economies show up towards
> > the top of the list of aid donors in terms of volume, their
> > performance looks much worse when aid given is measured as a share of
> > donor GNI. (See Graph 17). Only five donors ? Denmark, Netherlands,
> > Sweden, Norway and Luxembourg ? meet the UN 0.7% target for aid as a
> > share of national income, established in 1970.
> >
> > Countries such as the United States and Italy give a pitiful share of
> > their wealth in aid. Most G7 donors have allowed their aid to decline
> > as a share of their growing wealth over the last ten years. Even as
> > the Financing for Development Summit approached, G7 donors allowed
> > their aid to fall by 3% in real terms between 1999 and the latest
> > available figures covering the year 2000. On average the G7
> > countries, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the USA
> > now give just 0.19% of GNI in aid ? even lower than their 0.21%
> > figure for 1999."
> >
> > Is our children learning?
> >
> >> Have to ask that question because as much fun as some people have
> >> bashing the USA, it is the very first country they call on for help
> >> when they are attacked or have a problem too big for them to handle.
> >>
> >
> > Well, if you want to lay  claim to be the "greatest nation in the
> > world" I'm afraid you're going to have to put up or shut up.
> >

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