US Hires Foreign Troops To Fight In Iraq
Since the Bush Administration has refused to allow the UN lead the peacekeeping, the US is now in the business of hiring troops from these developing countries. And of course, the people in these countries never got to vote on whether or not they wanted to go to war with Iraq and to send their troops there for possibly the next five years for nation building and peacekeeping.
As other countries take over the fighting a low intensity war in Iraq, the US causality rates will be lower come November 2004.
(Source: The Seattle Times, 23 June 03, page one and A8).
Israel seeks another $4 billion in US aid.
Dec 9, 02: Israel has made a pitch for another 4$ billion in additional military aid. Israel is already due to get 42.o4 billion in military assistance and 4720 million in economic aid in fiscal 2003.
the US has given Israel $240 billion in aid since 1973. In addition, the US has given Egypt $117 billion and Jordan $22 billion in return for their signing peace treaties with Israel.
There are a lot of hidden cost of US supporting Israel. Thomas Stauffer, a consulting economist, who does analyses of the Middle East, states that since 1973 Israel has cost the US about $1.6 trillion.
Source: The Christian Science Monitor, _Economist tallies swelling cost of Israel to US_, Dec 9, 02)
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