Sunday, February 26, 2012

The Truth About Foreign Aid


In an attempt to make a case for foreign aid [“5 myths about foreign aid,” Outlook, May 1], John Norris used the same old tactics employed both by supporters and opponents alike of foreign aid: Build a straw man and then destroy it.

No one to my knowledge has claimed that in no case has foreign aid helped, or no Republican supports it, or no country has ever been weaned off foreign aid, or no foreign aid program has ever succeeded. These myths are the imagination of John Norris.

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