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JimYardley

The picture of the starving, dying child is heartbreaking to be sure, but what is the ultimate reason for this tragedy? Some PROGRESSIVES would lay the blame on g****l w*****g. Some PROGRESSIVES would say that the real blame is the imperialist policies of old, white, European men. Some PROGRESSIVES would blame capitalism, without bothering to explain the connection between capitalism and starvation.

But you will rarely see the lust for power among native Africans being mentioned as the root cause of this death and violence. Lacking any other description, let's call them tribal wars, such as the violence in Rwanda between the Hutus and the Tutsis that resulted in the deaths of between 500,000 and 1,000,000 people.

There have been civil wars in Chad, the Congo, the Ivory Coast, Djibuti, Eritrea, Kenya, Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan (Darfur), Uganda and the always lovely tourist mecca of Zimbabwe. And this list ignores the generally Muslim-on-Muslim violence in Egypt and the Magrheb.

Can any rational person think that the raising of food, either through farming or raising animals, to feed that child in the photo could have happened when the world around the farmer is going up in flames? I fear that PROGRESSIVES want to allow this black-on-black violence to continue and simply provide food from western democracies to assuage their consciences, without addressing the underlying cause of starvation -- rampant and open aggression by armed men in the armies of power-hungry lunatics who themselves only want to rule. In these examples, they apparently want to rule at all costs, even if ruling means ruling over vast cemeteries.

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Change a few lines and I believe you could put us in the mix real soon. It's the Marxist's way, and God knows we have too many of them here to remain a healthy country.