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What kind of message does it send to American allies and adversaries around the
world when those countries that most identify with the United States and its interests
are precisely the ones whose aid is cut?
The changes in the Soviet Union have brought about a relaxation of tensions in
Europe, but not in the Middle East or the Philippine Islands. It is Dole's idea of logic
that Europe, where the threat of war is diminishing, should get more assistance, and
the Middle East and the Philippines, where instability is if anything increasing, should
get less.
Dole says he wants to "consolidate and expand freedom's gains" by giving money
to Europe. Then, in a stunning disconnection, he suggests taking it from countries
that have helped the United States to consolidate freedom elsewhere. This makes
no strategic sense. The United States currently spends about $150 billion a year in
the defense of Europe. The nature of the threat to Europe has dearly changed: the
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United States rethink foreign aid. Noting Eastern Europe's political changes and
America's budget constraints, he proposed takings percent of the foreign aid that
goes to the top five recipients - Egypt, Israel, Pakistan, the Philippines andTurkey-
and giving it to the newly emerging democracies in Eastern Europe, among others.
Doing so, argued Dole, will "consolidate and expand freedom's gains" and "enhance
America's security."
Discussions about foreign aid are often confused. But this proposal, which has re-
ceived sage nods around Washington and, Dole asserts, appreciation from- the
president, is more than confused. It is nonsense.
Dole tells us that his cut to the most favored nations will yield "$330 million -
enough to respond to the needs of new democracies such as Poland, Hungary,
Panama and countless needy countries." Surely he is joking: On his recent trip to the.
United States, Lech Walesa said that Poland alone, needs $10 billion to rebuild an
economy destroyed by 40 years of communism. Estimates for what Panama needs
range from $1.5 to $3 billion. •
Three hundred and thirty million dollars? Spread over Eastern Europe, it is enough
to buy every citizen a Big Mac andCoke1- but hold the fries. The $330 million won't
cover it. Spread that sum additionally to "Latin American nations in the front lines in
the war against drugs" and "countless needy countries," as Dole suggests, and it
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Dole’s nonsense on foreign aid
Last Tuesday [Jan. 161, Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole suggested that the
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Turkey is the only Islamic country in formal alliance with the United States. Philip-
pine governments have consistently permitted the presence of American bases in
the face of powerful domestic forces, including well-armed guerrillas, that want
them removed. Israel, the only country in the Middle East where the United Slates
can rely on free use of the territory in case of emergency, has since 1948 been abused
and reviled in the Third World precisely because (as then U.N. Ambassador Daniel
Moynihan once pointed out) it represents the only outpost of the Western democ-
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vanishes into thin air.
But what makes this nonsense pernicious is that while $330 million spread among
the wrecked economics of Eastern Europe will make not a whit of difference, it
makes a large difference to the five countries from which it is being taken away. These
five has a combined GNP half of Eastern Europe's. Countries like Egypt and the Philip-
pines live on the economic knife edge. For them $100 million is real money. In a des-
perately poor country such as Egypt, where bread must be subsidized, cuts of this
. magnitude can mean riots and revolution. (Last year, comparable budget cuts led to
food riots'in far more stable Jordan.) To fragile governments friendly to the United
States, these small sums can make the difference between survival and overthrow. (
Moreover, the choice of five countries is perverse. These are five countries that
have stucktheir necks out for the United States. In the face of domestic and regional
hostility, Pakistan went to war (supporting the mujaheddin in Afghanistan) and Egypt
to peace (at Camp David) in support of crucial American interests. For their trouble,
their presidents - Zia of Pakistan and Sadat of Egypt - paid with their lives.
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