How does funding Islamic terrorists keep us safe?
The reconstruction of USAID from an independent terrorist and international leftist funding entity to a subsidiary of the State Department has Democrats involved in the foreign policy apparatus freaking out and desperately trying to get Americans to care.
Here’s Sen. Chris Coons, former ‘bearded Marxist’, taking his best shot at it in the paper of big government.
Trump’s attack on USAID is an assault on Americans’ safety – Washington Post
Coons claims that “USAID’s programs, like all our foreign assistance, play a central role in combating extremism, promoting stability and protecting our homeland.”
The reality is USAID had us sending $600 million to Pakistan, $3.7B to Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover, $2 billion to the PLO and Hamas after Oct 7, and $3.4B to Yemen whose Houthi regime we’re currently at war with.
How does funding Islamic terrorists combat extremism and protect our homeland?
” Our foreign assistance and engagement wins us friends around the world, establishes our leadership and, more important, neutralizes distant threats to the United States well before they put our country at risk,” Coons claims.
“We know that in countries such as Somalia, Yemen and Syria, terrorists exploit security vacuums to develop havens from which to attack the United States and our friends — as the Islamic State did in the 2010s and al-Qaeda did in the run-up to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Our foreign assistance funds are used to train friendly militaries to raid terrorist training camps, to secure prisons where Islamic States members are held, and to provide the equipment needed to screen and keep bombs off planes.”
Sen. Coons is either dumb or lying. He’s confusing USAID with foreign military financing. The vast majority of USAID funds has absolutely nothing to do with any kind of security. It’s money being shoved at foreign NGOs, including the UN, which then provide a cut to terrorists.
It’s not used to stop Al Qaeda, and the best evidence of that are the exemptions provided for doing business with Islamic terrorists.
USAID doesn’t keep Americans safe, it endangers them.
SKA says
This sounds a lot like the late Roman Empire strategy of paying trilobite to barbarians yo deter their invasions. Which, of course, only encouraged them to threaten more invasions. Funded “friends” are false friends!
GE says
So true, SKA.
Didn’t work for the Byzantine Empire either.
And it won’t work for the US
Transmaster says
Wow, someone else has a grasp of the history of the region. Just think how history would be different if the Byzantine ambassadors had Muhammad killed instead of paying him off in gold.
gravenimage says
Tribute (instead of trilobite), but I knew what you meant, and agree.
Brent Horton says
Very well said Friend. Very well said indeed.
RightStuff says
Coons needs to clean his windshield. He isn’t seeing things right. Either that or he is going cross-eyed.
Wellington says
Proving again what I have asserted for years now, i.e., the single greatest enemy of America is the Democratic Party of the USA. None greater. NONE.
40 rounds says
And their imbecilic voters mind you
Wellington says
Yes, them too.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
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somehistory says
the fraud program brought ilhan elmi, alias omar, and her terrorist family here. She said usaid fed her and her family in a ‘refugee’ camp. Now she’s in the government and works for somalia…a mozlum run nation which supports and produces terrorists.
coons and other goons like him, want us all dead.
Hudson says
“If USAID Doesn’t Keep Sending Money to Terrorists, Americans Will Be unsafe.” That’s one of the dumbest things I’ve heard in a while.
Kosh's Shadow says
In other words, if we don’t pay the jizzya the Muslims will attack us.
Other choice – attack them.
somehistory says
Glenn Beck asks some good questions about the usaid/cia funding of al queda…bo’s “Timber Sycamore” program
“https://www.militaryhistory.info/timber-sycamore/
“Timber Sycamore is a classified weapons supply and training program run by the United States Central Intelligence Agency and supported by various Arab intelligence services, most notably Saudi Arabia’s. Launched in 2013, it supplies money, weaponry and training to rebel forces fighting in the Syrian civil war. According to US officials, the program has trained thousands of rebels.
Creation
The program’s existence was revealed after the US Federal Business Opportunities website publicly solicited contract bids to ship tons of weaponry from Eastern Europe to Aqaba, Jordan. One unintended consequence of the program has been to flood the Middle East’s black market with weapons including assault rifles, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades.”
This keeps Americans safe? coons has some explaining to do.
https://www.glennbeck.com/trump-cabinet-expose-obama-secrets?utm_source=glenn-dailyPM&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=GlennDailyPM%202025-02-04&utm_term=ACTIVE%20-%20Glenn%20Beck%20Daily%20PM
Brent Horton says
USIAD has become an unlimited CIA piggy bank for the ” Lefts ” funding of America’s Enemies. Keep the Dictators and Terrorists Funded, while all the while, Liberal NGOs, and DNC Operatives become rich off the misery of War. Meanwhile, the Industrial Military Complex continues to rake in billions.
I say no!
abu taleb says
Muslims are peaceful when they are very poor and too busy working to earn a living. When they are well off, then they try to implement shariah law and do or at least help the jihad against non muslims.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I actually can keep up w/ everything this government is doing, but it’s fun seeing the Left overwhelmed. There are so many moves being done in parallel – from the deportations to the abolition of USAID to bringing our regional adversaries to heel to undoing the MidEast policy of the Dems…. – that they just can’t focus. On top of that, they had an absolutely laughable conference for the new DNC leadership, which just takes the cake
I’m just waiting for Kash and Tulsi to be confirmed, then I’ll be happy. RFK too, although it’s not as big for me as it is for the MAHA moms
Nera says
They’re still not hungry so now they threaten but once they ate all the free food they will start begging. Then it’s time to bring back exile and send them everyone who tries to provide them with any kind of aid to live with them.
Bexarkat says
I vote Coons is dumb…and lying!
Sara Alan says
I think senator Coons is both stupid and lying (and I see at least one other reader agrees). I sent him an email asking to provide substantive proof that giving money to muslim nations has increased the security of the United States. My guess is to not get an answer from his office, of some type of bs form letter.
Our foes are both internal and external.
gravenimage says
Senate Democrat: If USAID Doesn’t Keep Sending Money to Terrorists, Americans Will Be ‘Unsafe’
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Yeah–since nothing makes us safer than appeasing and paying off Jihad terrorists… sarc/off