At $100 for a barrel of oil, Saudi Arabia should support their forward command post, not the US.
Posted on 03/05/2008 2:32:20 AM PST by Serb29
WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) - The newly independent state of Kosovo will need an estimated $2 billion dollars in foreign aid over the next few years, about half of which should be provided by Europe, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday.
The rest of the money could come from the United States and such institutions as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, Assistant Secretary of State Dan Fried said. He was testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Helping the fledgling state, which declared independence from Serbia on Feb. 17 with strong backing from Washington, will require top-level attention into the next U.S. administration, Fried said. U.S. President George W. Bush leaves office in January.
"We cannot simply assume that Kosovo is on autopilot and walk away. This is going to take high-level sustained attention through the end of this administration and into the next" said Fried, who is also acting undersecretary of state for political affairs, the State Department's third-ranking position.
Fried stressed the $2 billion was a "crude estimate." To help make Kosovo economically viable, the United States will participate in a major donors' conference on Kosovo in June, he said. He said Congress had already appropriated $350 million in aid for Kosovo.
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$2 billion is one day’s drug proceeds in Europe by the neighbor Albanians. What the hell are we doing?
I say F this S!
Kosovo shouldn’t even be a state to begin with and we’re giving them money?
Well we’re broke so you’ll have to ask some other country. Sorry but true.
If they want money, they can go get it from their fellow towel-heads.
That’s “near-term”. We’ll be paying their bills for decades to come....trust me. Those mosques aren’t cheap to build and Serbia won’t be footing the bill for them anymore.
“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”
- Patrick Henry
“The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.”
- John Adams
“Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in the exclusion of religious principle…”
- George Washington
“[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. Religion and virtue are the only foundations...of republicanism and of all free governments.”
- John Adams
Our founding fathers were trying to tell us something...something we were supposed to hold dear to our hearts and never forget. It is a true tragedy their great words ring hollow now.
Took a quick look through the constitution, seeking the place where it empowers the government to put a gun to the heads of citizens in order to pick their pockets and send the proceeds of the resulting theft overseas. Couldn’t find it; guess I missed it.
At $100 for a barrel of oil, Saudi Arabia should support their forward command post, not the US.
Tell ‘em to sell more dope if they need money...
Propping up another jihadist state, this one of our own creation. What makes the poison taste so good?
Shouldn’t US save money for a “Free California” or “Azatlan”?
We do the same for the Palestinian terrorists, so why not?
ask bj clinton and weasley clark....they put the US on the wrong side of this mess.....let Europe take care of and pay for this crap....the US has enough problems at home with jorge destroying the country will his amnesty for illegals....
where does bush get these ideas from?
Where’s that picture of him holding hands with the Saudi prince?
The mooslims would already be defeated if not for him, let him pony up his own money for their defense.
Here we go again!
That aint workin thats the way you do it
Money for nothin and your Islamics for free.
Let the Saudi’s support the B-stard State. It’s their brothers, not ours.
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