Ну вот. Мы тут почти поверили, что ты - российский патриот за судьбы России болеющий, а оказлось, что ты - обычный американец из Балтимора, даже не совсем обычный, а очень внимательный, могущий заметить и поддержать маргинального кандитата.
Да ты оказывается, плохо читаешь, пропускаешь важные детали, и посему делаешь выводы, над которыми можно только посмеяться. Что я уже сделал, и теперь такая возможность представиться и другим.
Поясняю, Ron Paul - единственный кандидат, который не словом, а делом изменил бы американский подход к международным отношениям. Для тебя, не умеющего либо читать, либо анализировать, либо и то и другое вместе, уточняю, что относится к изменению этого подхода, т.е. его программа:
- выход США из ООН
- выход США из НАТО
- полное прекращение финансирования каких-либо организаций в других странах
И пример его реального шага, как конгрессменa:
- единственный конгрессмен, который выступил против какой-либо формы американской поддержки Ющенко на выборах 2004 года. Читай, просвещайся, и заодно вот тебе его voting record:
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[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]How did this one-sided US funding in Ukraine come about? While I am afraid we may have seen only the tip of the iceberg, one part that we do know thus far is that the US government, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), granted millions of dollars to the Poland-America-Ukraine Cooperation Initiative (PAUCI), which is administered by the US-based Freedom House.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]PAUCI then sent US Government funds to numerous Ukrainian non-governmental organizations (NGOs). This would be bad enough and would in itself constitute meddling in the internal affairs of a sovereign nation. But, what is worse is that many of these grantee organizations in Ukraine are blatantly in favor of presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]Consider the Ukrainian NGO Inte[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]ational Center for Policy Studies. It is an organization funded by the U.S. government through PAUCI. On its Web site, we discover that this NGO was founded by George Soros' Open Society Institute. And further on we can see that Viktor Yushchenko himself sits on the advisory board![/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]And this NGO is not the only one the US government funds that is openly supportive of Viktor Yushchenko. The Western Ukraine Regional Training Center, as another example, features a prominent USAID logo on one side of its website's front page and an orange ribbon of the candidate Yushchenko's party and movement on the other. By their proximity, the message to Ukrainian readers is clear: the US government supports Yushchenko.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]The Center for Political and Law Reforms, another Ukrainian NGO funded by the US government, features a link at the top of its website's front page to Viktor Yushchenko's personal website. Yushchenko's picture is at the top of this US government funded website.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]This May, the Virginia-based private management consultancy Development Associates, Inc., was awarded $100 million by the US government "for strengthening national legislatures and other deliberative bodies worldwide." According to the organization's website, several million dollars from this went to Ukraine in advance of the elections.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]As I have said, this may only be the tip of the iceberg. There may be many more such organizations involved in this twisted tale.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman, Times, serif]It is clear that a significant amount of US taxpayer dollars went to support one candidate in Ukraine. Recall how most of us felt when it became known that the Chinese government was trying to funnel campaign funding to a US presidential campaign. This foreign funding of American elections is rightly illegal. Yet, it appears that that is exactly what we are doing abroad. What we do not know, however, is just how much US government money was spent to influence the outcome of the Ukrainian election. [/FONT]
