Are you suggesting that the people starving to death in the sun, still arent willing to help themselves??? Or are you saying that because the government is corrupt and refuses to help its people, that we should stand back and watch these people die on CNN(or maybe u prefer Fox News)? Either way i think your wrong.
The men are continually getting, transmitting, and dying from AIDS, which, I would imagine, is a much more painful experience than starvation, yet the majority of them still refuse to wear condoms. Where irrationality is concerned, there is no such thing as "reason."
How does the government have to "help its people?" Define how, exactly, a government must help its people, and where - precisely - do you draw the line?
Oh, and for the record: I can't stand FOX News.

I dont think the military option is the right one, but i think whatever we can do, we should do. This includes forgiving debt that will never be paid off, seeing as these countries economies will never rise otherwise. Our officials are corrupt, they see Africa as a cash cow, that they can milk for years without the well running dry.
Their economies will never rise because there's not a free market. We can give them more and more money, but it's just drops of water in a bottomless pit.
Yes, our officials are corrupt, but that goes into another argument(which I have argued in numerous other threads - most lately the Supreme Court emiment domain thread).