Agent Orange Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Paying off the UKs debts would be my priority. So, you would happy for tens of thousands of refugees to starve, freeze and suffer disease as a consequence? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Clowning Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 So why is aid still being sent to China, India, Russia etc?? Because as Hammerstein has stated 'people dying from malnutrition, dehydration, preventable diseases and so forth'. The fact that they have wealth and choose not to spread it around means that idiots like us have to bare the conscience for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lipschitz Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 We are not the worlds nurse maid. We should only give what we can afford to after we have sorted out our own problems and got our society in some sort of order. It's true that we shouldn't be giving vast sums of money overseas when we are being told that there is no money for this or that here. Regardless of the situation we should still only give what we can afford. It's a bit like giving your wages to charity and then telling your mortgage company that you can't make this months payment. What would they say? Or worse still....stop your tv license payments and tell them you sent that money to Syria to help. Would they say ok, no problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivanava Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 So, you would happy for tens of thousands of refugees to starve, freeze and suffer disease as a consequence? It is possible to be indifferent, neither happy nor sad about their situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammerstein Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I think people are also forgetting that a proportion of the problems facing many countries are down to countries like us invading them and generally meddling in their affairs against their will over the last few centuries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivanava Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I think people are also forgetting that a proportion of the problems facing many countries are down to countries like us invading them and generally meddling in their affairs against their will over the last few centuries. A chronology of key events Syria. There's nothing in there that could lead anyone to the conclusion that the problems in Syria are down to countries like ours invading them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammerstein Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I'm talking generally, rather than only Syria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFKvsNixon Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 We are not the worlds nurse maid............................ What makes you think that? You do know that we're not the only country with a foreign aid budget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivanava Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I'm talking generally, rather than only Syria. Syria wouldn't really be included. Iraq then. 1914 - 1918 - World War I. 1917 - Britain seizes Baghdad. 1920 - Britain creates state of Iraq with League of Nations approval. 1920 - Great Iraqi Revolution - rebellion against British rule. 1921 - Faysal, son of Hussein Bin Ali, the Sharif of Mecca, is crowned Iraq's first king. 1932 - Iraq becomes an independent state. 1939-1945 - World War II. Britain re-occupies Iraq. After that Iraq's problem were caused by Iraqi infighting, wars with other counties in the region and the invasion of Kuwait. And you can't really blame us for world war 1 and 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claire_ Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 So, you would happy for tens of thousands of refugees to starve, freeze and suffer disease as a consequence? Happy? Only a sicko would be happy about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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