Agreed. If people want to pay money to other countries, then let them do it with their own private money -- not with mine. If we're being forced to cough up our hard-earned dollars, then those funds should be spent in America, not in the country that has the loudest US lobby.Pat H said:
That goes double for military aid to countries with atrocious human rights records -- a category that includes Israel and nearly all Arab nations in that region.
The US should engage in fair trade with other nations, but apart from that, we should butt out of any place we don't need to be.