Medical Supply

Simon Templar asked:


I’ve read about 50 million questions here about why this country or that country hates America. So what? Other countries have never loved us — except, of course, when we were smashing the dictators and madmen that Europe seems to embrace with maddening regularity.

Yeah, we *do* meddle in affairs overseas, because when we don’t, we wind up getting pulled into even *bigger* messes (like World Wars I and II)). But with all the hate coming from around the world, I’m beginning to think that we should have never involved ourselves in WWII — we should have let the Nazis and the Communists destroy Europe and then Asia, fortified ourselves over here, and let the rest of the world go to pot. In fact, I’m sort of getting to the point where I’d like to see us call all troops home, cut off all foreign aid and medical supplies, call in all debts, roll up the welcome mat, and stay home for the next century and let France and Canada pay the bills for a while.
I’m becoming more and more isolationist. We should stop sending other countries ANYTHING — stop meddling COMPLETELY — and send NOTHING overseas — no food, no medicine, no technology, no jobs, no foreign aid, NOTHING. Let’s keep it all here at home and build our own stockpiles of resources and supplies and to Hell with the rest of the world.
xemicangirl: Well, World War II wasn’t OUR mess — it was the result of hundreds of years of European greed, ignorance, brutality and bigotry. We could have just let them drown in it, and I’m beginning to think we should have.

BigDave asked:


To me it seems like we’ve been doing this for decades, and the problems of AIDS, violence, and starvation have only gotten worse.

If you think about it the more people we save the more the countries become overpopulated and the scarcity of water, food, and medical supplies only gets worse. Africa already has the fastest growing population of any continent, and if we stop the spread of AIDS it is going to explode.

From a scientific point of view, for the process of natural selection to take place the weaker part of a species or society must die out. Not only from a genetic perspective, but also so the amount of material resources is not exceeded by the population of a species. And were obviously inter-fearing with the process of nature by giving aid.

Economically, we also cause countries to become dependent on aid by bailing them out of hard situations.

Lastly, I also wonder why were giving billions away to other countries every year when we have a 7 trillion dollar debt, our currency is failing, and our economy is on the verge of recession. Can anyone explain to me why we are still doing this?

nkfree2010 asked:


As I’ve heard, US government helps so many poor and underdeveloped countries through its sub-agency(USAID etc) and food, medical supply, emergency relief are being delivered to the recipient country. But what I’ve heard recently is that,despite of humanitarian purpose, some items is barred to deliver to the needed country, I mean, EXCEPT miliatary supply and dual purpose items. Could you give some example for such ‘barred-to-give’ item? And which law is applied to that case?