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Sexy Video Calls for New Foreign Assistance Act (!?)

Alright, it's more like this video, which strikes me as a regular George Clooney next to the standard methods of delivering pleas for a new foreign assistance framework (weighty white papers laced with USG acroynms, or at least dry op-eds with much talk of machinations at USAID, State, and the Pentagon), is sexy compared to the competition. But I'm really pleased that someone, particularly the smart, credible people at the Center for Global Devlopment, are willing to reach out to Americans by broadly asking a single question in YouTube format: "How can a Foreign Assistance Act from 1961 still be relevant today? It can't." And leave it at that. Because, that, in and of itself, is a pretty glaring problem.

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