Right, especially that Americans now borrow the socialism system from the Soviets.
Ah, good old American socialism. The system that guarantees many elderly people will live below the poverty line, contains a healthcare system that only might be partially managed by the government, and in which the highest tax bracket is 35% of earnings over $372,950. If that's not the definition of socialism...well....uhhhhhhh........
Maybe you two could hook up?
Be careful about paper cuts, stu4.
In order for capitalism to survive, it NEEDS debt.
This shows a highly oversimplified, naive, and shortsighted view. The world, right or wrong, was built on debt, but only the last few centuries could be considered truly capitalist. There is also every possibility for capitalism to eliminate debt. Granted, the American economy (and the Western economy as a whole, which the Ukraine certainly bought into quite avidly as soon as they were able to) would undergo a massive upheaval if such a shift were attempted, and the end result would look like a blend of socialism (true socialism, however, not the totalitarianism insanity that became the government of the USSR--my favorite was the TV factory whose output was measured by weight, so they made really heavy TVs) and capitalism, but this shift may already be occurring.
The "aid" you talk about is not free money, but it is a debt that will be paid over the next decade.
A lot of aid is given without any obligation or expectation of repayment. I'm not saying that US motives with such aid are entirely altruistic, but they are not all directly economic.
My graduate degree in political economy (amongst the other graduate and post-graduate academic qualifications I hold), says otherwise.
I bow to your far greater capabilities here--I pay attention to the news (somewhat) and I enjoy analyzing what i read, but my English degree doesn't exactly give me a solid background in economics.
Afganistan was a war of necessity, a just war.
I hesitate to tread where you are doubtless better versed, but I've always been a plucky lad...
Though the situation in Afghanistan may have reached a point where it was necessary to invade, didn't the US arm/train the country to fend off the Russians? I hate to give stu4 something else to twist around, but it was our aiding of the country's liberation from the USSR that created the just war in the first place, no?