Post hoc ergo propter hoc. I bet you didn't know it, but I put a voodoo curse on them, shortly before the government fell and all those people died. So now you know the real cause of all that suffering...
But can you prove that "after this" really means "because of this"? Are you sure that the government itself didn't create the circumstances that led to starvation? In other words, maybe the starvation came because the government didn't fall soon enough.
"But can you prove that "after this" really means "because of this"? Are you sure that the government itself didn't create the circumstances that led to starvation? In other words, maybe the starvation came because the government didn't fall soon enough."
Perfect libertarian logic as expressed by the Von Mises Institute. Government is the cause of all evil. If you read the article I posted the link to, you'll notice that VMI argued that the people of Somalia were better off without the central government even if one million deaths due to starvation and disease followed the fall of the government.
But that is beside the point. The question I have posed is this: "Would the prevention of a million deaths from disease and starvation a proper function of a government?"