Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Friday, December 29, 2006
With the unspeakable African famines the West seems capable of answering only in two modes: a condescending sympathy or a misplaced generosity. Neither have helped the untold dead, or the maimed survivors. It is hard to believe that a League of Nations program has helped anywhere; that apparently is the case in Ethiopia. But the only inevitability is the cycle of famine repeating endlessly -- until the continent's nations learn how to live for themselves.
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