What does "bribe warring organizations " even mean?

scottyah 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It was formed during the cold war to mingle in the proxy wars. We sent guns to the militias, and basically bribed towns and villages (by selective donations) to come to the USA's side. It's basically a mechanism to pay off warlord bribe demands.

	▲	UltraSane 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It had the side effect of preventing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people from starvation and disease

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MisterMower a day ago | parent | prev [-]

The money was ostensibly used for noble purposes but usually ended up funding unsavory characters or organizations that are actually at cross purposes with stated US goals. A lot of humanitarian aid we send to the Middle Eastfor example, ends up in the hands of terrorists.[1]

1. https://oig.usaid.gov/node/7283

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defrost a day ago | parent [-]

> A lot of humanitarian aid ... ends up in the hands of terrorists.

Which you "prove" by linking to a story how $9 million was "diverted" (although the person responsible was caught and charged) out of a total of $12 billion.

That's 9 parts of 12 thousand or 0.075% that you are describing as "a lot".

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MisterMower a day ago | parent [-]

If you think that is the only instance of fraud you are deluding yourself.

	▲	UltraSane a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Please provide more examples.
	▲	defrost a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's your story - it's up to you to demonstrate the scale of loss. So far all you have demonstrated is that US AID loses less aid money than CBH loses in grain to parrots each year. If you think think that millions of tonnes of grain should be not transported because less than 1% is eaten by parrots then you're committed to starving millions of food.