partly very bright and partly ..., sorry, dumb - cutting foreign aids is just fine as they benefit only the private central banks and maybe big cooperations but no one else, but not if it is based on a alliance in an illegal act of aggression (war in Iraq) - it is someones good right to oppose such illegal action and express its disgust for it, its called freedom of speech!
you should keep in mind by the way that countries like Germany (3rd largest ISAF contingent, almost 4000 solders that keep the german sections quite quiet) and France (1500 solder and stocking up, operating a small carrier, 2 C135 refueling jets and 6 2000 Mirage nuc-capable fighters in Kandahar ) been in Afghanistan since day one, Germany even send special forces down before their congress authorized it which is under their laws normally enough to put the entire government of then under indictment of a war crime. and france been just promising more troops in Afghanistan to ease the pressure on US troops in the hot zones.
see, there is a simple problem: even the europeans lost the tasted for nation building, at least the citizens of european nations as they have to pay the bill for this BS. and in addition to that are they not willing to sacrifice a single soul for this BS anymore as well. they been all in favor to take out Bin Laden and been all in support of the grieving US after 9/11. and my personal guess is that they still would support the pursuit of Bin Laden today - but they also see that Bush jr. shows now real interest into this at all and only breaks new wars lose that drag everyone closer to Armageddon.
So we should not forget where the US still has some friends left right now.
and the calling for terrorist acts on other nations should be left to terror organizations as Al Qaeda and not by a US president
and don't let us lose the focus: the problem was named to be Bin Laden and Al Qaeda - but Al Qaeda is mainly an idea and franchise terror brand and not a linked group you can fight physically as a group. all you can do against Al Qaeda is to dry out the breeding ground and that is only to do by cutting the support to dictators in that region as the saudi's "royal family" - in general cutting all political and financial support to such.
Problems such as Bin Laden are products of the CIA and the actions taken in Afghanistan in the 80's come now to haunt us as we missed to take care of the mess we made there in the 90's promptly resulting in the first attack on the WTC in '93.
And Jonny, if you think that all the foreign aid spend of the last century been for the good of the people that been supposed to receive it you are on the wrong track. it been always in the interest of big corporations and local dictators or corrupted governments that introduced in return the US economical system (private central banks and all the crap that is ruining the US as well) in their country to harm of its citizens - that was the true design of the "Marshal Plan" for example. so don't fall for the historical lies spreed by the Fed Jonny.
peace