Even if I’ve done it to make the case—that we now make consistently with the U.S. military—that investing in USAID is investing in peace and security in far-off places where impoverishment is an invitation to bad actors and failed states, an invitation to sociopolitical chaos. And even if the secretary of defense agrees that in the developing world it’s cheaper to prevent the fires than to put them out. This is quite a jump from Central America in 1986. Now even a former supreme commander of NATO, General Jim Jones, leads the same chorus. And—wait for it—even Donald Trump’s future secretary of
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