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Bono seeks US Senate backing for ‘Marshall Plan’

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Posted by Fred 2016-04-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 How much of Bono's money did he offer to pony up?

Posted by Raj 2016-04-13 00:23|| 2016-04-13 00:23|| Front Page Top

#2 How much of Bono's money did he offer to pony up?

Doesn't matter. They're gonna print the money in any case.

Posted by badanov 2016-04-13 00:57|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2016-04-13 00:57|| Front Page Top

#3 To fully implement a traditional 'Marshall Plan' in the ME, we would have to bomb the crap out of it first.

Posted by SteveS 2016-04-13 02:14|| 2016-04-13 02:14|| Front Page Top

#4 To fully implement a traditional 'Marshall Plan' in the ME, we would have to bomb the crap out of it first.
Having Faith in Their future would be racist like Koreans, Germans, or Japanese.

Expecting less is Racist so pull out right naway and let them do whatever they want.

Posted by newc 2016-04-13 03:19|| 2016-04-13 03:19|| Front Page Top

#5 ...George Catlett Marshall was one of the hardest cases to ever serve this nation, and we were blessed to have him. It says volumes about his intelligence, generosity, and decency that the term 'Marshall Plan' has become a synonym for a plan to rescue entire regions of the world.

SteveS speaks wisdom, though - we'd have turned the place into a damned parking lot long before we ever spoke of rebuilding it.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2016-04-13 05:26|| 2016-04-13 05:26|| Front Page Top

#6 AND we'd have to have several hundred thousands of troops in place administering the whole thing.

Mind bogglingly stupid idea.

Posted by AlanC 2016-04-13 07:30|| 2016-04-13 07:30|| Front Page Top

#7 The important thing about the original Marshall Plan was that it was started AFTER Germany surrendered.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2016-04-13 07:44|| 2016-04-13 07:44|| Front Page Top

#8 No!

Posted by 3dc 2016-04-13 08:23|| 2016-04-13 08:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Why do I have the feeling that most of those Billion$ will end up in ISIS coffers?

(The tin-hat part of me says this might be the design...).

Posted by CrazyFool 2016-04-13 10:01|| 2016-04-13 10:01|| Front Page Top

#10 So we have an extremely wealthy Irishman who wants to give billions of American dollars to Arabs who want to kill us. Not just no. Hell no.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-04-13 12:12|| 2016-04-13 12:12|| Front Page Top

#11 Gotta be some B-17 dies still about somewhere.

Posted by swksvolFF 2016-04-13 12:13|| 2016-04-13 12:13|| Front Page Top

#12 Nah, CF. Most of the money would end up in the pockets of cronies and pols here and some there.

What's left would end up in ISIS.

Posted by AlanC 2016-04-13 12:30|| 2016-04-13 12:30|| Front Page Top

#13 Instead of coals to Newcastle, petrodollars to Riyadh?

Posted by regular joe 2016-04-13 14:46|| 2016-04-13 14:46|| Front Page Top

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