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followed by American taxpayers involuntarily paying for the repairs. During WWII and after it was won, England, France, Russia and China were saved by enormous helpings of American taxpayer money, supplies and GI blood. This time there were two former enemies, Germany and Japan, to help rebuild with taxpayer resources after American armed forces used taxpayer-paid munitions to bomb the hell out of them.

It didn't end there, because no good deed ever goes unpunished. Or should the cliche be: they always bite the hand that feeds them. Two former allies, Russia and China, that had received massive help and billions of taxpayer money to help them recover from WWII devastation, sucked sucked up as much as possible from Uncle Sucker. Then they suddenly decided the U.S. was their deadly enemy. During the Korean and Vietnam Wars, they supplied equipment and "volunteers" to America's North Koreans and North Vietnamese opponents. Our former national charity cases of WWII, the hand-biters of Russia and China, were at least partially responsible for the deaths of 100, 000 American GIs and the waste of billions of taxpayer money on wars that were never won.

Now America, for at least the past six years and no end in sight, is again involved with an endless war, and once again GIs are dying, this time in Iraq and Afghanistan. There are different line-ups of friends and enemies from the ones we kept or lost in the 20th Century. But for American taxpayers, the same involuntary charity contributions go on and on and on and on.

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