The Death of Aid: How $260 Million Turned Food Distribution Into a Killing Field

MSG Stan Hutchison So, sadly true. Wishing our nation at nearly 250 years after a hard won Revolution would evolve past the adolescent stage that most nations go through, the older ones much, much earlier. We are still a whipper snapper to them, more recently in very pronounced ways, who they all think deserves a swift kick in the behind, since it is worse than merely "growing pains". We can and should do better. Its such a chore for the generations coming up to inherit.<sigh> Given all the disclosure stuff about aliens, very clearly without being a functional team world wide that will be a long way off that will have most folks still wondering for a very long time!
I have wonder off and on for decades how many of the issues worldwide are cooperatively orchestrated drama to redirect attention from something that needs attention.

Little changes when crimes don't stop <sigh> Some of the foreign service officers with state, return and do their best to educate the public about what they know from being on the ground living where they are assigned - but it seems falls in deaf ears in government when it comes to policy making. No doubt wherever those folks serve they have a lot of valuable information that government should make use of by looking at more closely.
I was so grateful to happen upon a new pub about this region from those folks when I left the Army, to be able to update about what had been transpiring. Indeed, things do not change. I'll stop . . .not gonna get on this soap box here at RP, any more than I already have!

SGT Mary G. we just know what we know and sometimes that is all we can do. The powers to be can be brutal and scary.

One thing you learn traveling to different countries in the military is that corruption in governments isn't that uncommon. Something we Americans haven't understood until just recently.

Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen talley ho! Much can be learned from what we see, if we just look.