http://www.guardian.co.uk/…

The US today signed a deal with Israel offering $30bn (£15.1bn) in military aid to its closest Middle East ally.

The package coincides with US plans to offer Saudi Arabia advanced weapons and air systems that would greatly improve its air force.

Israel has said it has no opposition to US aid to Saudi Arabia, which comes as America seeks to bolster its Arab allies in the face of an increasingly assertive Iran.

Why do we give Israel aid at all? As far as I can tell they do pretty well for themselves. As do the Saudis. Another entry in the clusterfuck which is the United States interventionist foreign policy.

I’ve been reading Ron Paul’s latest book, A Foreign Policy of Freedom. It’s just a collection of speeches given to Congress but it’s full of great tidbits. If you don’t spend your days watching CSPAN this book will show you just how screwed up our foreign policy is. Sending aid to our enemies and our enemy’s enemies who later become our enemies. Funding two sides of a war with cash and weapons. Complaining that a current enemy attacked someone… with the weapons we sold them to fight them. It’s amazing. I highly recommend it.

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