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Originally Posted by JaVeDK
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The flaw with that statistic is, that it includes military aid and aid to countries like Isreal, which is not an "underdeveloped country" thus distorting the numbers. Aid like that is not a result of the altruistic goodwill of the USA, but merely a way to preserve own interests / protect investments.
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"Underdeveloped countries" like Haiti?
http://www.unohrlls.org/en/ldc/related/62/
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The United States leads all countries with its commitments of $713 million — with Canada, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Japan and the European Union among other top donors.
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Several of the counties on the underdeveloped list contain less than a million people, go ahead and run those countries through the same filter if you like.. it hardly paints an accurate picture.
And I'm sure the lives saved by the United States military aid would hardly describe that aid as a flaw.