[vundy33]

Actually, we are the "World's Red Cross", and WE did it to ourselves. Throughout the Cold War, especially the first half of it, we overthrew government after government if we thought they were even just leaning toward the Soviet Union, they didn't even have to overtly support Communism! Not only that, we pretty much bought support throughout the years in the form of aid. Combine that with the fact that we are legally bound to aid some of these countries we have troops stationed in, and that equals to being the world's police, fire and ambulance service.

We did it to ourselves, we literally created this problem. There is no easy solution. I would think that instead of getting upset over us giving aid to a country we have many, many interests in as well as many American troops, more people would get upset over the millions the U.S. has paid to foreign leaders, like Afghan President Hamid Karzai, usually very quietly and even hidden from our government completely. I don't mind helping out a country we have such an interest in prospering when we are the ONLY nation in the world capable of doing so, but I do mind paying foreign leaders bags of cash money under the table while they actively try to screw us.

If this were a country like Pakistan (which we spent millions helping out during their flooding a few years ago, even though they try to hurt us at every single turn), I could understand being upset about this. But not the Philippines.