[tgs]

Plan Obama: Where stupid trumps reality.

By 86 votes to 32, with 59 abstentions, the committee on Monday approved a text that “expresses deep concern at serious ongoing and recurring human rights violations in the Islamic Republic of Iran.” The text also cites a wide range of violations.

The 32 countries voting against the resolution were Arab, Islamic, communist and autocratic states, along with Tehran’s left-wing Latin American allies, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua (full list below).

Of the ten countries that received the most U.S. foreign aid in fiscal year 2011, only one – Israel – voted for the resolution critical of Iran’s human rights record.

Afghanistan and Pakistan, the two biggest aid recipients in FY2011, voted against the resolution. Six of the other seven biggest beneficiaries of U.S. aid – Egypt, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa – abstained.

The remaining country among the top ten U.S. aid recipients, Iraq, did not vote (although Iraq’s representative did take part in other votes during Monday’s session.) The Shi’ite-led government in Baghdad balances its relationship with the United States with close ties to neighboring Iran.

http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/201...reign-aid.html

[LottiFurmann]

Plan Obama? I'll bet aid was also sent to these countries under Bush and the previous presidents.

[brraverishhh]

This "aid" thing is pure madness.The whole concept of giving money to corrupt tyrannic bunches of thugs and expect genuine improvement in the lifestyle of the common people ruled by them should be treated as mental illness. If anything it's an instument of domestic US (and other respective aid providers) politics. I doubt people in the recipient counties even know they are getting "aid". And surely these countries' representatives to UN and other significant bureaucrats have nothing to do with the people on the ground who might benefit from this "aid" but love the status quo very much. Keep it comin'...

[S.T.D.]

Indeed, it is utter madness giving money to corrupt ingrates, who, in the end, bite or rip-off the hand that feeds them. Agreed, the everyday person in need of aid, receives diddly, because it ends up in the hands of the despotic regimes, warlords and every other parasite on this planet. Worse, the like of the PA whose sole intent is to by munitions with one intent to murder Israelis... not to mention the citizens of western nations handing out the aid.

The UN is no more than a waste of money and effort... the sooner it is shipped to Damascus, Tehran or some other toxic breeding ground the better, in my opinion. They would feel much more at home in that rancid and bilious element.

The west is suffering a near death economic crisis but remains doling out the lolly, while many folks in their backyard are teetering on the edge. Thanks to the dolt-heads whose main concern is self-serving, party politics this downward trend will continue.
The gimme, gimme nations, with the exception of Israel, should be held to intense scrutiny - if the US or other western democracies were in need, it is to safe wager, no one would come to their aid.

[PhillipHer]

Recalling an interview with Ambassador Bolton from right after UBL was assassinated, during which he basically admitted that aid to Pakistan is, in part, because of fear of their nuclear capacities, I am not sure what we are dealing with, cowardice, bribery, stupidity? Certainly, human rights issues are a front for whatever is going on.