Oh, Islandloverr, I'm sure glad I don't live in your America. And again, I didn't indicate you said those things but was just addressing them as you were considering them - else you surely wouldn't have included them in your posts. Regarding the foreign aid, I imagine if any country wants America out and don't want the money, they just don't accept the wire transfer into their account. A simple block on the account will do it. And when anyone - a person or a country, funds part of an operation or a country, perforce one has a steward's liability to be certain how that money is being used. Further, treaties, ally status, and business agreements with countries give us entree into certain matters of state and vice versa. I could address your other immediate points one by one very effectively but for the sake of YorkieTalk, I won't take this part of the discussion any further. I'll let it lie for the sake of our doggie forum.
Barkleylove, I second your motion: God Bless America and keep her safe.
Thankfully, West, Texas has suffered way fewer deaths than the 80 some authorities were estimating the night of the explosion and I have heard the number now stands at 14. I haven't heard a peep yet about the dogs and animals killed.
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