looting? because saving a child every 3 seconds can only be a bad thing for society right? would it be different if this was americans? or they were white? could speak english? yes it would.

you need to educate a people before you can expect them to turn towards democracy. they cannot appreciate the situation they are in if they are starving. their greatest question in live is whether or not they will strave, not who rules them. feed and educate then they will take care of their governments.

the idea that you defend the starving of children for the sake of a half stick of gum a day is sick.

interest in africa should not be about personal gain, about profit, about capatlism, about corporations. it should be about not having 30,000 children a day die of starvation. it shoukd be about ending the starvation of 3 billion people. it should be about sanitation for 2.2 billion. clean water for 1.1 billion. it should in no way be about benefitting us or the cost of half a stick of gum. you wouldn't care if that was added to tax to fund the war on terror. to save 3,000 american lives. but for some reason 30,000 african children is not a dot on the world's mind.

we are talking about the 9-11 attacks. 10 times. daily. that is the scale of death. the world has spent so much money trying to fight the war on terrorism but it fails to realise it does not matter. it pales in significance. 3,000 dead americans in 5 years? so what? in the same time 54,747,500 children have died from starvation alone. more 54 million compared to less than 3 thousand. i know where i want my money to go. i know what matters more to me. i know where my biggest concern lies.

but at the end of the day those 54 million children we're not american, didn't speak english, weren't white, were thousands of miles away and din't die so dramtically. the merely starve to death in their millions why people argue that it would be wrong to use money to buy them food.