I can only add to your foreign aid thoughts...
Think of all the vicious dictators we backed and gave money too..All in saying the ends justified the means...Which adds to your morality arguments....
You also just pointed out what many Americans are upset about, although they don't understand it in your terms, only in the results there of.
It has given rise to our political problems and an Asshole named Trump took advantage of it with no real intention of fixing it...
WWI and WWII also gave rise to the profit of the military, I think it had plenty to do with our Empire wars as I call them...The likes of Dick Cheney as you used before....
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