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I think you are right. I'd like to see them spend their personal fortunes the way they spend the tax payers money.
You know, I spent so many years working international stuff. I wish I could say that I'd witnessed gratitude on the part of foreign countries that we helped. They don't take care of the stuff we've given them, they sell it on the black market, they complain about a lack of spare parts -- forgetting entirely that they had no logistics or warehousing system to speak of and couldn't find the stuff. After we saved Kuwait, I sat in a meeting with my agency director (who was a 3 star) and witnessed him take a tongue lashing from a Kuwaiti over some weapon cleaning equipment we sent them. Not to mention that they were furious that we wouldn't give them our finest night vision equipment.
No matter what we did, it was never enough. I worked on a number of regions over the years -- even Africa, and eventually it just burned me out. When I moved to technology transfer issues, primarily with the Europeans, no matter how much technology we gave them or allowed our companies to pass to their companies, it was never enough.
It's enough to make a person believe in isolationism.
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