[Jim Noble]

Africa is what it is.

The question for the West is, should Africans be allowed to live as they wish, as Africans, or is the resultant suffering so grave that OUR morality obliges that we intervene and disrupt or destroy those things that give meaning to their African lives?

It's not a liberal or conservative issue.

[JoanVarga]

Well said.

[Grunthor]

Let them live how they wish to and stay the heck out of their business...all the way. No interference, no money, no food aid.

[Eurale]

Great question. My preference is that we allow them to live independent of international intrusion. Their obsession with genocide, state sponsored starvation and mutilation (to name a few) eliminates any deserving connotation.

[fanfan]

A question for the Africans, as well.

"For God's Sake, Please Stop the Aid!"

[kublia khan]

Reading your tagline I believe that you understand how the same continent that gave us Egypt with it’s Scientific and Historic contributions could have also come to be known as the dark continent. I do not believe it has to do with a lack of exploration, do you?

[Balding_Eagle]

It's not a liberal or conservative issue.

I think it is.

Liberals decide issues based on feelings, conservatives by logic.

Anyone of us, or at least most of us, feel sorry for these folks.

Conservatives have the good and logical sense to stop at that because we know, logically, that unless we follow the Coulter Plan (invade their countries, kill their leaders, convert them to Christianity) there is no help we can give that will solve the problem.

Liberals feel so bad that they feel the only way to help them is with someone elses money.