Fresh off the death of Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasaesbeh, the State Department has announced that they are planning to almost triple foreign aid to Jordan in response, tacking on another $1 billion per year.
The US had been sending Jordan $660 million per year, and the State Department says the “unprecedented strains” caused by the war with ISIS necessitates the increase.
Though they are presenting the situation as a calamity that they need to save Jordan from with more funding, US officials have made clear virtually from the moment the Kasaesbeh video broke that they hoped it would force Jordan into a more aggressive war policy.
So far it seems like it is, with Jordan talking up a major escalation against ISIS, and US officials openly thrilled with the idea, seeing Jordan’s escalation as a benefit to their own war effort.
For 1.66(6?) billion, I'm sure they can get dozens of other additional world leaders to join the crusade.
Did anyone bother to ask Kerry where he intends to find this extra $1B? Based on the national debt figures the pols are always railing against, everyone knows the US Treasury is bare.
What's the problem? The Fed buys treasuries via Goldman-Sachs all the time. "Money" flushes in. People close to the state coffer get rich.
In other words: Taxation through the backdoor.
Who cares about Jordan except for Israel? (They say this is actually where most Palestinians live and the rest should move there). Let them pay for it and fight it. Pussies.
The Hashemite Kingdoms reach is far beyond Jordan proper, through its familys historical roots it has relations in Yemen, Pakistan,Iraq,Syria, Saudi Arabia and all UAE kingdoms. An valuable ally all during the Iraq embargo where it’s Intel and deliberate sabotage of Iraq by its intelligence and active is well worth a few hundred millions a year.As a msjor building center for rearming the Libyan military under contracts by US and Qtar its economy has grown as the unrest grows. They are the sand leeches of the middle east always have been only. Now they cannot recieve US White Knighthood unless they join the killing.
"An valuable ally all during the Iraq embargo"
Heh. Most of the Iraqi ammunition boxes I came across in 1991 were marked "GHQ Amman."
I just heard over the nightly "news" that King "Whatever" of Jordan said that "only America can defeat ISIS." Wanta bet? Ask Putin; these ISIS savages are school ground bullies compared to the Chechnyans, and the Russkies have already kicked their derriere. (and sent them packing to Long Island.)
"US Announces Another $1 Billion in Aid for Jordan’s ISIS War"
Add another one billion to national debt.
Blood money for foreigners to be good vassal States while the homeland falls in disrepair.