Katrina Aid
Foreign Policy's website has helpful listing of the aid offered to the US after Katrina hit.
posted by theCardinal @ 11:36 PM
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From the earlier posting on the Millennium Development Goals:
"Foreign aid was invented in 1948 with President Truman’s Four Point Program. In almost six decades, some 2.3 trillion dollars have been dished out worldwide to poor countries by rich ones—about half the cost of World War II! In that time, not a single country has significantly reduced poverty as a result of foreign aid."
The tables are turned. Presumably the help being offered to the US, from the international community, is humanitarian aid. Most of the money is coming from oil countries in the Middle East.
Some of the aid was more symbolic than anything else and the offers from Cuba and Venezuela were cynical and made to score political points. Which is not to say that the aid should not be accepted. By allowing help other nations help US the US acknowledges that it is another nation in an "integrated" world community. Richard Haass from the Council on Foreign Relations argues in his book "The Opportunity" that integration should be the focus of US foreign policy
The book, The Opportunity, gets interesting reviews. One says that Haass is from the realist school, led by Henry Kissinger.
"In Haass' view, the advocacy of democracy would play a less prominent role in foreign policy, instead, order, stablity, and cooperation would be paramount. At the same time, the US would not undertake expensive wars to impose regime change and democracy. . . .There is really no alternative to multilateralism, as the Bush Administration is finding out in its second term. . . In a globalizing world of cross-border flows of people, goods, money, ideas, viruses, weapons, etc., global integration is taking place no matter how desparately nations try to hold on to sovereignty."
Therefore the EU seem to have a more 'realistic' foreign policy than the current administration in the United States.
I've started The Opportunity and found the money quote in the preface "It is easier to wage and win wars than to consolidate and negotiate peace. Democracy is difficult to instill and impossible to install." An excerpt appears in the latest issue of National Interest. I've been meaning to post it but have not gotten around to it. I'll probably e-mail it to you.
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