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To: xm177e2
I wish I could share your idealistic vision of Africa US relations. The sad truth is that the more we donate, the more they hate us. It never fails, if the US steps in to help, we get mugged sooner or later.
13 posted on 05/29/2003 7:50:11 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: DoughtyOne
I wish I could share your idealistic vision of Africa US relations. The sad truth is that the more we donate, the more they hate us. It never fails, if the US steps in to help, we get mugged sooner or later.

There is a certain mindset that we should bestow our magically wonderful charity upon those poor degenerate black people who will love us in return even though they will always be savages. This is the mindset of the left-winger/Euro-peon. They want black Africans to be poor and dependant on charity. They want to be the saviors of those people.

But that is not the only way to charity. There's the whole give a man a fish/teach a man to fish school of thought (hint: it comes from the Bible). Charities like the "Heifer Project" give Africans (and other poor people) the tools they need to succeed. Those are good charities, because they are not permanent, they are not designed to create permanent dependence--on the other hand, they are designed to make people self-sufficient. And that sort of charity is successful. I think Bush is a results-oriented guy (he was a business major, after all), and I think he will get results, and not just engage in the political equivalent of masturbation (which is all left-wing charities accomplish--they make the giver feel good about himself without helping anyone else in the long run).

In fact, left-wing "charities" often do more harm than good. With regard to Zimbabwe, for instance, they agree with Mugabe that sending Genetically Modified food to alleviate the famine there would be a bad thing. They are complicit in Mugabe's deliberate, artificial famine. They are not just worthless, they are actually evil.

20 posted on 05/29/2003 8:29:08 PM PDT by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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