I don’t know when this first started happening, but the use of money to try to buy favor in the world community has been an abject failure. The United States, as soon as the cease fire in Lebanon happened, immediately said they were sending 50 million dollars for rebuilding. This money will assuredly find a portion of it going to Hezbollah. There will be no good will and gratitude for any amount we send to Lebanon.

The amount that will go to Hezbollah will be rewarding them for killing Colonel Higgins and hundreds of marines with a truck bomb. Any large disaster threat in any country immediately has this country falling all over itself in its eagerness to send money and all kinds of aid. When this disaster has run its course, there is invariably some complaint lodged for something we didn’t do. This belief that the United States is a big bully was not the feeling in World War II when Europe was delivered from Hitler’s grasp, by the death of hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and a large amount of monies spent in this effort.

I understand that the countries who committed certain amounts of money towards the rubuilding of Afghanistan and Iraq have not met their commitments. Another waste of money for the United States is sending money to Palestine (we know how they like us).

Egypt is another where we send money in goodly amounts (for what I don’t know). If the European countries don’t like us after the Marshall Plan and our patriots’ blood, I say to hell with them. As long as this country continues its success, their will be envy in the rest of the world (Hallelujah).

I have seen instances where individuals have tried to buy friends. They always want more, and invariably it leads to enmity.