&gt; Because without money, you can&#x27;t do anything but let dictators and mass-murderers trample around like vicious kings.<p>But <i>with</i> money, you can <i>arm</i> those dictators and mass-murders so that they can become <i>actual</i> vicious kings.<p>&gt; Turning a blind eye to your abused neighbors isn&#x27;t a way to prevent terrorism, either.<p>That&#x27;s true, which is why it&#x27;s so puzzling that we so frequently turn a blind eye to our abused neighbors and fund the abusers.<p>I&#x27;m definitely not proposing isolationism. I&#x27;m proposing we spend aid money actually helping the populations of nations instead of funding whatever militant promises to protect US interests.