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Addressing Global 'Fragility' - Congress Tries To Get Better At Doing The Wrong Things
[Daily Caller] The Global Fragility and Violence Reduction Act of 2018 (H.R.5273), sponsored by New York Democratic Rep. Eliot Engel, who is a vociferous opponent of President Trump, seeks "to reduce global fragility and violence by improving the capacity of the United States to reduce and address the causes of violence, violent conflict and fragility in pilot countries, and for other purposes."That is: continue to dump ever more taxpayer dollars into Third-World sinkholes but in a more coordinated fashion. Armed with the new buzzword "fragility," such a vaunted representative of Washington D.C.’s bipartisan permanent political establishment as the United States Institute of Peace, supports the passage of H.R. 5273 and hails the discovery of a "new" strategy (BEYOND THE HOMELAND: Protecting America from Extremism in Fragile States). Formerly known as foreign aid, the Institute of Peace elaborates on its new strategy, which sounds eerily similar to a number of old strategies: Posted by: Besoeker 2018-10-28 |
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