The latter is aid in about the same sense that a banker aids a farmer when he takes a mortgage on his farm. Some might call it. not so much aid. as just plain business. Whatever it is called. it is obvious that bona fide repayable loans to other nations have nothing in common with setting up a temporary soup kitchen for flood victims. or maintaining hundreds of thousands of Middle Eastern refugees for years. Yet. expenditures for all of these purposes are included in the figure of $60 or $70 billion for aid. Similarly. we list indiscriminately as foreign aid. the cost of a squadron of fighter planes given to an unsteady government somewhere. and the cost of assigning a public health expert to a nation with a malaria problem.
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