Getting Foreign Aid Right

Rhetorical restraint is not prominent in Washington these days. Given the volatile personalities involved and the escalatory effects of social media, one hesitates to declare that the apogee of apoplexy has been reached—or ever will be. Elon Musk’s denunciation of the U.S. Agency for International Development as a “radical-left political psy op” and a “criminal organization” did raise the bar to new heights, however.