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Originally Posted by dellinger63

fact check


$10.4 billion: Amount of aid the United States pledged for development in Afghanistan from 2002 to 2008. The United States provides a third of all development aid to Afghanistan.

$5 billion: Amount of aid the United States has actually dispersed.

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:...lnk&cd=1&gl=us


Meanwhile Isreal and Egypt both received

$16.76 billion and $11.44 billion respectively and that is only from 2001-2006(one year less)

http://www.vaughns-1-pagers.com/poli...oreign-aid.htm


http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...362402,00.html

well, i don't remember if it was the paper here or where it was that i read that back in the day...perhaps they meant per capita or something, i have no idea.

edit~i did a bit of googling....usaid, which is all humanitarian aid other than for health (they say that's a separate account, and AIDS aide to south african nations leads the way there) shows afganistan as the #1 recipient. so, perhaps when they break down how foreign aid is doled out (as i'm sure that we didn't send military aid to the taliban regime of afganistan) afganistan was larger...you know how that goes, if they slice the pie just the right way, they can show what they want you to see...or, perhaps whatever i read prefaced the remark that afghanistan was the #1 recipient with 'other than israel and egypt'. it's been too long. but i do remember reading about the amount of aid and thinking, wow we got some return on that investment!