Fair enough. However , you can’t solve each kind of problem with a war.
I agree that we should all be ashamed with those nasty genocides in Rwanda, Kosovo , Sudan etc…
This drives me to think that the UN DO need some armes forces in order to be able to rush everytime a genocide is pending somewhere.
Hwever the best way to solve those kinds of problems is to get rid of the poverty on this planet.
I read last week that with 150 billion $ , we could erase all the 3rd world debt.
Isn’t it the amount of money that GWB requested to the congress this year for Irak and Afghanistan? It makes me wonder…. Maybe I’m dreaming :rolleyes:

simply forgiving debt and providing massive social welfare to the rest of the world will solve nothing. Just like people who say that if the US killed all it’s cows and pigs, they cold feed the rest of the world’s starving with the corn used to feed the cows and pigs… And then what? Their kids go hungry, so we have twice as many starving as we did before.

Taking from the rich countries and giving to the poor ones will not “fix” the problem of poverty. It doesn’t do it in the US, and it won’t do it in the third world. the problem is getting these countres to be self sufficient. They can try as hard as they want, but with an evil dictatorship, or rampant militias, they will go nowhere.

Oil for food, the UN food shipments to Somalia… Money given to evil men does nothing for the people.

In MY opinion, investing billions of dollars in Iraq(by ridding it of a dictatorship) will do more for ending poverty than any other investment in the country.

In countries with governments that are not corrupt–or should I say LESS corrupt–investment in their well-being can be done differently. Investment is the key. Good will is fine, but without something to gain nobody’s going to INVEST–including the people of the country itself.

You will not end poverty without the cooperation of those living in it. If they simply take hand outs to get by–you’re just going to keep feeding them. If they want to learn how to survive without hand outs, they will.