What if?

I'm not going to say anything about the mess in the Middle East except that it's complicated. But, I can't help wondering, Would the results be different if we had taken a larger fraction of all the money spent on weapons and barricades and the like and spent them on humanitarian aid instead?

What was it Eisenhower said? Something about every dollar spent on a weapon was a dollar stolen from education or some humanitarian cause. He should know. He saw the results first hand in Europe.