But with money, you can arm those dictators and mass-murders so that they can become actual vicious kings.

> Turning a blind eye to your abused neighbors isn't a way to prevent terrorism, either.

That's true, which is why it's so puzzling that we so frequently turn a blind eye to our abused neighbors and fund the abusers.

I'm definitely not proposing isolationism. I'm proposing we spend aid money actually helping the populations of nations instead of funding whatever militant promises to protect US interests.