[meenie]

Let's assume that this trip is to secure votes from the Afro-American community in this country. Does it sound logical that they will be more receptive by investing in Africa than here in the US? Will the $15 billion investment in Africa Aids do more good there than here? This doesn't make political sense plus it sure is spoiling Bush's image as a political conservative interested in conserving the taxpayers money. Some of this stuff is getting past ridiculous and becoming silly.

[Madcelt]

I agree with both of you. I was taught charity begins at home. Well There are plenty of problems here in America that need fixing first. But more to the point. This article reads like a " American Guilt" trip from paragraph one. Don't appreciate it one iota. The "Europeans" have as much guilt to share as America. Matter of fact so does the whole world. The Europeans were the prime benefactors of that "trade." So don't lay a guilt trip on the USA. The End of slavery is a "western" ideal. One further note, If not for the British fleet cut backs the slave trade ,now thriving, off the horn of Africa, would not exisit. How do these "African Leaders" purportedly Deal with that? Or are they?