I somehow don't get the impression that his opponent, an older lady and the widow of a former president, was exactly into gangs, drugs, and the like. And simila

I somehow don't get the impression that his opponent, an older lady and the widow of a former president, was exactly into gangs, drugs, and the like. And similarly, I find it difficult to imagine that we couldn't vet the USAID candidate, a musician, to find his ties to such. Wiki apparently states he was well known for "cursing on stage, cross-dressing as well as using homophobic slurs." What a great guy to spend US taxpayer funds to promote. But the reality is that it's not about finding a good person, but about finding a person who will fulfill US interests. By the way the same thing was true, to a smaller degree, of the Marshall Plan. 5% of all its funding went straight to CIA front organizations [1] helping to ensure Europe developed in the "right" way. The same thing continues today where USAID was doing all it could to try to undermine Hungary. It's like all this rhetoric about democracy being about the will of the people suddenly becomes meaningless when the will of the people is not equivalent to the will of the US. And I don't think this is conducive to a stable world order, to say the least. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan#Funding_for_CIA_fronts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan#Funding_for_CIA_...