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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (5164)11/9/2004 8:38:09 AM
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Feed the world - or free it?

By Eamonn on Globalization - Adam Smith blog

It's 20 years since Band Aid released "Feed the World" in order to raise money for starvation relief in Africa. But did it do any good?

In individual cases, yes, obviously. But humanitarian aid does not get to the root cause of the problem. Once again we have a crisis, this time on Sudan's western border with Chad, where Sudan's scumbag government and the militias it supports have attacked and killed thousands, simply on the grounds of their ethnicity and religion. There, it's pointless to send food aid because the government simply isn't letting it get to the people who need it.

Adam Smith wrote that to lift a country out of poverty, you need "peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice". But our world institutions haven't exactly excelled in bringing those conditions about.

Indeed, what use is a UN where all countries, however vicious, count equally - where even genocidal Sudan can be voted on to the Human Rights Commission? It's time the world's liberal and democratic nations got together: as Brookings scholars Ivo Daalder and James Lindsay wrote in this weekend's Financial Times, we need a formal alliance of democracies. A world body that would make it very plain to tyrannical and genocidal governments that their age has passed, and that would act positively to spread democracy and the virtues of peace and free trade across the planet. For there is no prospect of prosperity until those essential conditions exist.
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