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I know you are not picking on me.

I am well aware of the workings of Third World countries. While I have never been to Africa, I have known friends who lived and worked there and you are correct about the corruption.

I am not naive about the situation, but I think "hands off" is wrong.

I am not naive about the situation, but I think "hands off" is wrong.

So what is a solution? Throwing money at it doesn't work. Heck, the Dems have been doing that for years here.

I don't have a solution, but I agree with TexasCowboy on this one.

"but I think "hands off" is wrong."

I gave an example of our misguided attempts on another thread, but I'll briefly describe it:

There were several hundred tons of grain stored in an outdoor soccer field in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania which had been donated by the US to feed the poor.
When soccer season came around the local government decided they needed to clean off the soccer field.
A British entrepreneur turn-keyed the clean-up for the grain.
He cleaned off the grain on top that was sprouting, hauled it into some warehouses and later sold it back to the Tanzanian government who then sold it to the people because, after all, they had bought it so they could no longer give it away.
This is how they confuse the trail so that free grain winds up a big profit item for the local bureaucrats.

I can only imagine the manipulation which will go into effect once that 15 billion dollars is accessible.