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Originally Posted by Undertoad
Since the average GDP per capita in Saudi Arabia is higher than that of Poland, Latvia, Russia, Chile and (*ahem*) Turkey, and since we already give Egypt $2.2B per year and they still hate us, what evidence do you have that poverty and/or lack of giving is a solution? |
The Saudi and Egyptian governments, which are the beneficiaries of the GDP and foreign aid, are quite supportive of the US, at least to our face. Ironically, US support of these dictatorships feeds anti-US sentiment, which allows the governments to use anti-Americanism to deflect resentment away from themselves.