The anonymous poster writes, "It's also the symbol of a country that year after year gives more in aid than any other country in the world."

Do you measure aid in explosive megatons? Or is it in the siphoning off of billions of dollars in so-called "debt", plucking food from starving baby's mouths, to enrich the capitalists of the rich countries. Giving a small amount of what is stolen back in aid hardly constitutes a great humanitarian act, but is instead a PR ploy at best, at worst it is aid to prop up horrific governments like the death squad government of Colombia.