[freeeee]

Thanks for a thoughtful and honest answer.

However, it looks like another "meals on wheels" and nationbuilding mission, complete with UN involvement. I reject these roles as legitimate US foreign policy.

[Miss Marple]

I don't like "meals on wheels" except as short-term emergency aid, as in the case of earthquakes. For famine, you must have a long-term solution.

Destabilization of the most corrupt regimes would certainly be supported by a lot of Europe, at least in the case of Zimbabwe.

I also think there is an opportunity to control resources in those countries through purchase of shares in their mining industries with food aid...sort of an investment, if you will.

The current method of giving aid provides no long-term results (at least positive ones). I favor doing something that gets Africa on the road to being able to take care of itself and exploit its potential.