where are the WMD?

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We have been sending food to Africa for fifty years, and starvation has continued for fifty years. Only now the population is greater, so the numbers starving are greater.

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Possibly. Although that reads at first glance as if the initial famine to which we react has not death toll.I think that this claim is badly, badly wrong for too many reasons to go into on this board, probably. It starts from a false premise that these famines are in some way normal acts of nature. But that is not by any means the whole picture... for example, if your state is crippled by debt, despite having paid it off several times over, then there is very little liquidity in the system to invest/improve or to react to a crisis.

Whether Compmage does or doesn't, I certainly do.

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or as in the case of Somalia and many others, caused by fighting.

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Indeed. And American terrorism certainly didn't help. And western arrogance launching an invasion that was supposed to be a humanitarian effort. Nor, of course, Western efforts that keep many African countries, of which Somalia is but one, under permamenent debt-bondage.

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Or as in the brewing catastrophe in Zimbabwe, by the actions of one real jerk.

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Or, indeed, by the failure of the British government to fund the land transferes made in treaty in 1979 and which it has totally, totally failed to honour. Or indeed, by the self proclaimed "Commercial Farmers 'Union'" which happily exports grain to wealthy international markets to fund their oh-so-necessary purchases of german TV's and Japanese stereo's, while the populace whose country it nominally is starves for lack of food and don't have enough GDP to afford parafin.Frankly, the colonial farmers in Zim have nobody to blame for their plight but themselves. Much the same prospect is in store for South Africa unless land redistribution gets a serious start, which shows no sign of happening at present.Despite centuries of colonialism, the West is still in endemic denial of its culpability and historic responsibility to Africa and the third world as a whole.