44 percent of the federal expenditure is for foreign aid! What will that waste do for us?

Let’s see; the majority goes to fund Israel, Egypt and Syria.

We are funding the Armageddon war and no one blinks an eye.

Imagine what this money could do to improve our future generations.

I say, let them kill each other on their own dime!

Rolo…

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Everything else?

Syria?

I was under the impression that the US had labeled Syria a state sponsor of terrorism for quite some time--and had banned US foreign aid, investment, and the sale of military equipment and dual-use items.

In Sukkariyeh, villager Jumaa Ahmad al-Hamad told the AP he was walking Sunday when he saw four helicopters, two of which landed.

A U.S. military official in Washington confirmed Sunday that special forces had conducted a raid in Syria that targeted the network of al Qaeda-linked foreign fighters moving through Syria into Iraq.

...the raid targeted and killed Abu Ghadiyah, who was a senior al Qaeda in Iraq operative responsible for funneling foreign fighters and money into Iraq. A U.S. official calls his death "very significant." Syria was the only pipeline through which al Qaeda in Iraq was getting its foreign fighters.

Also Monday, a villager said U.S. forces grabbed two men and took them away by helicopter during the cross-border raid.

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...Syria appears to be making some amends with the United States. Though Syria has long been viewed by the U.S. as a destabilizing country in the Middle East, Damascus has been trying in recent months to change its image and end years of global seclusion.