Foreign Aid, who should receive?

According to the New York Times, the Ukrain is in desperate need on "billions of dollars" (1). That without this money immediately the country is bound to fall very badly. The government will be forced to make changes on the foreign aid is administered which would include, "government cutbacks, higher energy costs and structural changes" (1) that has not been previously accepted by the Ukrainian government. The United States is already in progress of planning to send immediate aid to the country in hopes that it will make the necessary changes. However, the worry is presumed by many that the country will use the money to have an alternate agenda and ultimately face turmoil upon not being able to deliver what is requested.

This article related to the "Comparing the Foreign Aid Policies of President Bush and Obama." The article did state that once the aid is administered that the follow through cannot be established by the United States, instead the money is now in the hands of the country in need and sometimes is used to put the country into more turmoil. I also do not think the Ukraine has the intentions that were laid out in the guidelines to seek the aid, however since they are in a very serious crisis, the United States will take the responsibility and assist them with a ton of money and very heavy aid package. I stated in class that whose priority is it to assist what country? It really shows that the Ukraine has some stake that the United States values while other countries that face similar crisis and do not get the aid, are not necessarily as valued according the U.S. perspective.  Also the N.Y. Times article did not speak about the individual human rights of the Ukrainians, and that was a criticism our class article had on how foreign aid did not necessarily recognize human rights. There is a massive human rights violation occurring in the Ukraine and attention needs to be on that first.