Keith Ablow, Fox News Doctor, Calls For 'American Jihad' Keith Ablow, a doctor and Fox News analyst, thinks that the United States should aggressively export its system of government to every single country on earth. What could go wrong? In a comically unhinged column posted to Fox News' website on Tuesday, Ablow calls for an "American jihad" in which the U.S. would aggressively move to America-ify the entire world, which totally makes sense because "the Constitution is a sacred document that better defines and preserves the liberty and autonomy of human beings than the charter of any other nation on earth." How would this ambitious plan work? Well, Ablow explains, "we would tie American aid to incremental changes not just in the attitudes, but in the fundamental structures, of countries. These changes would move those countries, slowly but inexorably, toward reflecting our Constitution in their own charters." The plan would also involve doubling the budget for the CIA and Special Forces, presumably to counter any foolhardy resistance to American domination. There's more, but you get the idea. Ablow further expounded on his vision on "Fox and Friends" Wednesday. After listening, host Brian Kilmeade correctly noted that Ablow had "some views that need to be discussed." The good Dr. Ablow is not exactly known for his grip on reality. In a Fox News radio segment last week, he accused President Obama of welcoming Ebola to the United States, thanks to his "affinities" with Africa. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/29/keith-ablow-jihad_n_6069154.html
Sheer arrogance. We have no more right to impose our manner of thinking on the rest of the world than anyone in the world has a right to do it to us. The guy is off his rocker. How dare he say that "We are right"? What is right for us isn't necessarily right for anyone else.
OK, but I don't see why we would want to waste aid money on countries that refuse to enact policies that will make said aid productive. As it is, most of the aid to Africa ends up in Swiss bank accounts. So I would condition foreign aid on appropriate policies. No one is being forced to take it. Our experience in Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan et al should disabuse us of the notion that we can force our system and values on others.
I'll go one step further and say we shouldn't send any aid at all to countries outside of what we already provide to various UN relief funds and the IMF as part of treaty agreements. No direct aid at all.