[RightOnline]

"When the Group of Eight leading industrial nations meets this week in Canada, feeding Africa's hungry should be high on its agenda."

Utter bovine excrement.

Not one thin DIME of my money will go to that hell-hole. Black Africa has done this to themselves, as usual. That's the Elephant in the Living Room that most choose to ignore. Tribalism, greed, megalomania, still more greed, bloodlust, envy..........all have contributed and will continue to contribute to Africans killing Africans.

I want to hear Jackson, Mfume, and Sharpton on this. Where the hell are these droolers now???? Let's hear it; let's hear about "Mother Africa" and how put upon blacks in America are these day, shall we?

Self-governance is impossible for these people in Africa. I don't care how that sounds, for it's the proven truth. They just starve or murder each other (and tee off on whites while trying to blame them for their shortcomings) by the millions, and we're supposed to send millions of dollars yet again........only to see it all wind up in the coffers of another tinpot, murderous, primitive dictator??? Over my dead body...........

[DB]

"Ordinary" Zimbabweans need to take back their own country.

I don't see how that is my job.

[11B3]

"Wealthier nations will now have to provide relief supplies"

We shouldn't provide them anything - especially to Mugabe. Let them reap what they have sown - dust. As the late Sam Kennison said: "It's a f_cking desert!!! It'll always be a desert!!! MOVE!!" How many times in the last 20 years has the US bailed out the entire populations of these African nations? With what result? SCREW 'EM.

[backhoe]

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[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

In the genius of African leadership, people are being starved by their own governments. The ruthless and deliberate elimination of one's own countrymen by starvation is nothing but barbarism and beyond the reach of civilized relief. These people cannot be helped because food from elsewhere always falls under the control of those in power who use it as a weapon against their own.

[Utmost Certainty]

If the wealthier nations would stop sending these people money and supplies, their populations would shrink back to a more acceptable level where they could maintain themselves.

[Goetz_von_Berlichingen]

What's happening in parts of Africa could be straight out of Atlas Shrugged. The looters have either expropriated, driven out, or simply murdered the productive members of society (who were, coincidentally, often Europeans) and now they do not have the talent, knowledge, or motivation to grow their own food.

The wages of sin are death. Some people have to learn this the hard way.

[sneakypete]

When the Group of Eight leading industrial nations meets this week in Canada, feeding Africa's hungry should be high on its agenda.

Why? Rewarding them for bad behavior will only encourage more bad behavior. If the starving people of those nations are so gutless they would rather starve than have a revolution,let them starve.

BTW,somebody ought to point out to this educated " president of the World Peace Foundation" that it ain't genocide when you do it to your own people. It's only mass murder.

[cynicom]

Not one dime.....

[Clive]

Goof find.

Looks like the liberal press in the US Northeast is beginning to notice and to attribute the problem mismanagement and corruption by African leaders, including he who once was a favourite poster child, Mugabe.

Very atypical behaviour on the part of the press.

[Pentagram]

American and European aid agencies and the World Food Program are now rushing maize and wheat

This will merely put off the day of reckoning. Sometimes the wisest path is mercy. Sometimes it is severity.

[happygrl]

Because of governmental delays and muddles in all three countries, poverty, and transportation bottlenecks, the food donors' valiant efforts will be insufficient to prevent millions from perishing.

I pray it does not come to this.