From: hossain@ee.rochester.edu (Razak Hossain)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh
Subject: More Pride (In the name of love ?)
Keywords: aid, humiliation
Date: 17 Nov 92 21:17:50 GMT
Followup-To: <1992Nov10.045701.26230@njitgw.njit.edu>
Organization: Univ of Rochester, College of Engineering and Applied Science


Farhan Muhammad writes:
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       Nadeem Malik is right!!! plese say no to U.S. Aid right now, and
       save a  good future for your country...

       I perceive the U.S. Aid as an alm...
       It would probably look very charming in the begining because one
       has all these money flowing in his country, but in long terms its
       a source of big disastrers for a nation..

       You might be able to feel the lethalness of the USAid from the
       following examples...

       Just for once consider a poor person, who has been mouth fed by
       some lunatic rich person, the rich person continuous it for years
       since its doesnot effect his economic state any significantly.
       And after few years he suddenly stops feeding the poor one..
       Now what do you think is going to happen to the poor soul..
       Offcourse he will pass through an epitomic state of disasters.
       He is no more used to of working hard and earning his food
       with his own hands.

       This is exactly what happened to Panama few years ago, when US
       suddenly stoped their Aids. Panama government didn't even have
       enough money to pay their govenrment employees...

       Will any nation ever prefer this humiliation by a Super Power ?
       After the Panama's example, and what Americans recently did to
       Pakistan I don't think anyone will be in fever of US Aids to
       their contries..

       It has been the policy of US government to manupilate the small
       nations in its hands,for long time now.. Giving the money to small
       nations doesn't really help them either. Most of the US grants
       goes back to US in the form of debts those nations owe to America.
       A very few of it is left for the country's people[if its saved from
       the hands of corrupts beurocrats].
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It is true that aid does tie our hands but do the words "humiliation" and
"manipulation" have any meaning to the toiling masses who are the nation of
Bangladesh ? Can our "National Pride" be seen as a distinct entity from 
the people of our country ? The pride of a nation comes from the people
of that nation and when those people are principally worried about what they
will eat next, national pride seems the wrong reason to stop aid.

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       So, why depend on others to provide for ours needs..???
       I would personaly prefer to eat less, work hardest and live happily
       with peace.
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That is a noble sentiment, but would you let several hundred thousand people
starve to death, rather than seek food aid ? I doubt that anybody who has 
actually gone without food would agree with you.

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       Remeber:  a grain earned by own hands taste much better than the
       whole bread fed by others.
               NEVER UNDERESTIMATE YOUR CAPABILITES.
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Very true. I belive that aid produces a cycle of dependence that stunts the
growth of a nation. I, however, see no alternative to it.

Best Wishes,
-Raza
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