Does Foreign Aid help?-2

Now the second example is of Pakistan. Billions upon Billions of dollars have been poured into that country and still the people are getting poorer and poorer and the image of the U.S. is nowhere improving and in fact it is decreasing day by day. Even the so called educated classes there who have been educated in the West have a very negative view of the United States, since they don’t see the aid as improving their lives and see it as a suspicious agenda to gain control of their nukes. And I believe that no matter how many more billions of dollars we sent to them, the situation will not improve. The recent case of an American citizen is just one of the examples of how that country’s citizens view the United States.

And there are countless examples, where the well intentioned American Aid has been seen as a conspiracy to keep the U.S. influence intact. I would suggest that in places like Pakistan and Egypt, there is no use spending billions of dollars where we have not achieved any concrete support in our policies and just send them selective aid and those also through international agencies so that at least there is some checks and accountability to what it is being spent upon. It is no use wasting our hard earned if we are getting more and more hatred, the earlier we stop giving aid to these countries the better it will be for those people to blame their own leaders and take responsibility for their own actions and maybe stand on their own feet.