Secretary Clinton on LGBT Rights in Geneva

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So, you do not support Cameron's decision to limit aid to countries based on their human rights records? While food aid is a condition of many aspects of foreign assistance, it is not all. I would be willing to bet that medicine and food are not going to be the portion of aid cut for human rights violations. It is probably a question the citizens of Britain should look into. What aspects of aid would be cut and how much?

Personally, I don't think States should engage in charity. To take money off one with threat of force to just freely give to another, seems to me to be morally wrong.

However most foreign aid is not charity in its altruistic sense. Britain has many moral obligations stemming from our colonial past. One only has to look at Somalia to look at the cost of a failed state.

I don't see any reason why foreign aid should not come with reasonable strings, even if people are starving.


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