A woman, who has been displaced by floods, uses a USAID box to move her belongings while taking refuge on an embankment at Chandan Mori village in Dadu, some 320 km (199 miles) north of Karachi (REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro).
Opinion
Fund - Don't Cut - U.S. Soft Power
April 30, 2013, Michael E. O'Hanlon and Gen. David Petraeus
Michael O'Hanlon and David Petraeus write that America's ability to protect itself and advance global interest often depends on "soft" power via the State Department and Agency for International Development. In that, they argue, too much cutting of funds to those organizations would be a bad outcome for U.S. national security.