Breathtakingly ignorant? Wow. I have seen foreign aid in the third world and a lot of it is pretty self serving from the first world (including the US). Examp

Breathtakingly ignorant? Wow. I have seen foreign aid in the third world and a lot of it is pretty self serving from the first world (including the US). Examples: US aid to fund a cure for malaria except they were only interested in solutions that would work as short term protection for the US military, not long term protection for the people actually suffering from chronic malaria. The WHO (in this case pushed by individual Americans) pushing locals to switch a national park over to mining interests resulting in multinationals coming in, screwing the environment and taking all the profits. I think your dad might have been viewing the world through ideological glasses.