Reality and fiction meet in a bad way

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Foodstamp said: The United States as a country donates more money and time to Africa than any other non African country in the world. It's still not enough, but it should be enough that we are not the whipping boy for Africa's problems. That being said, as my generation gets older and begins to take public offices in the United States, I think that Africa will become the number one foreign issue as things come to a close in the middle east.

I don't expect things to "come to a close" in the Middle East until after global warming makes the area too hot for human habitation.

Many of Africa's problems are due to our naive belief that any problem can be solved merely by throwing enough money at it.

American foreign policy is a lot more understandable if you think of the USA as a teenager with ADHD and an excessive allowance. (It doesn't make our policies make any more sense; it just makes it more more clear why we do the boneheaded things we do.)