Cut foreign aid to the middle east

I agree that trade is important, but my opponent needs to prove that cutting our aid will harm trade. The most important item of trade we get from the middle east is oil. My opponent is arguing that if we cut our aid, these countries will no longer sell us oil, and our country will collapse. There are a couple responses to that argument: First of all, my opponent has not shown any evidence or logic supporting the belief that these countries will stop selling us things. The truth is, they will not. Many of these countries are wealthy because of the oil trade, largely with the U.S. They would not give up a huge sours of income because we cut our aid. Take the example of Saudi Arabia. They are our #3 source of oil after ourselves and Canada. We currently give them just ten thousand dollars in economic/military aid. Pocket change for a large country. Clearly they would not give up the beneficial oil trade over ten thousand dollars. The second argument against that idea is that our standard for getting the aid back is both reasonable and easy. In the cases where we send them a more significant amount of money, why would they not comply with the easy standard, and get the money back. If sending money to terrorists is that important to them, they are not the kind of country we should send money to. The second argument my opponent brought up is that we will lose our alliances, they will "come after us in a full blown war." Please. My opponent has certainly shown no evidence supporting the claim that our aid is all that stands between us and war. Also, Let me again refer to the above arguments. Saudi is our most powerful "ally" in the region. They, for one, will not suddenly forsake an alliance because of ten thousand measly bucks. Like above, our standard is low. Any country so determined to persecute, and support terror that it will not give those things up for monetary gain, is, again, not the sort of country we need to keep as an ally. As I stated in my last speech, the aid money we send is not only ineffective in fighting terror, it is actually used to SUPPORT terror. Let me present another piece of evidence about that. Breitbart.com, October 3, 2012: Foreign aid is a $19 billion boondoggle that is so laden with corruption and waste that the entire enterprise should be a public outrage, and it ought to be abolished or completely restructured. It was originally intended to promote US foreign policy but is increasingly used for political purposes which often have little to do with American interests. It is questionable whether it has any positive impact on US foreign policy, and nobody knows how much of what we send abroad is stolen, converted to another use, or actually reaches its intended destination". One thing US aid does not do is instill any sort of loyalty to the United States. " Economist and foreign assistance expert Dambisa Moyo makes no bones about the fact that foreign aid is "an unmitigated political, economic and humanitarian disaster" it has made the poor poorer, and the growth slower. It has left countries debt-laden, inflation-prone, vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and unattractive to higher quality investment."