Conservative John Guardiano is upset that Grover Norquist wants America to come home and to tend to its own business and that Rand Paul has called for ending all foreign aid (he calls them both libertarians). He does, however, acknowledge that foreign aid is just bribery: Now, I don’t like foreign aid any more than the next conservative: Most foreign aid probably is economically wasteful and counterproductive. But the point of foreign aid is not economics; it is geopolitics: It is intended to shape a recipient country’s behavior and, quite literally, buy American influence. And it does just that. “More authentic conservatives know … Continue reading Aid or Bribery?