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Connecticutter said:Yeah, that's true. We also pay for a large military that defends a large portion of the world. People don't consider this aid, but its a service that we provide nontheless and if we didn't provide it many countries would have to pay more for their own national defense.
Its also interesting how the UN doesn't consider private donations to be aid. First it must be taken from us through taxes, then some people take their cut of the money, and only then is it considered aid.
The first part of your post some people refer to as Gaullism. Many countries use the United States' obligation to protect their portion of the world to their advantage, acting against United States interests because they know the US wouldn ever abandon them in their national security were threatened.