thought of the day 2009 09 07 - Darfur and Rwanda

I kind of understand how the US military wants to do more humanitarian aid, especially in Africa but if all these people are starving does it really help to drop a bunch of corn there? I mean they still have to cook it and if they don't have food to cook, what's the chance of them having a working stove?

Plus we have a ton of fat kids in schools right? So why don't we just confiscate all the chips and soda and vending machine crap and dump that in Africa? Doesn't that make more sense? How many little starving Ethiopians would there be if every little kids had Twinkies and root beer whenever they wanted?

And how come people always want to send food to Africa, I bet they have a whole under served population of alcoholics that would love some NGO to send vodka. I envision air drops of cases of beer. "your children are starving and you're infected with HIV but can't afford the anti-retroviral drugs. It's Miller time!"