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Posted: Aug 3, 2017

http://www.mintpressnews.com/natos-war-terror-leaves-famine-disease-wake-africa/230366/

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These problems have been going on since I can remember. - This is not "Western Imperialism" or

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Trump's fault as this biased article tries to imply. This is a direct result of these countries' dictatorships over the years.

Our church has been going over there for years trying to teach them how to purify their drinking water. It's dry over there, so water is scarce.

Last March some members of Franklin Graham's - aid workers called Samaritan's Purse

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were kidnapped in Sudan.

The famine there is man made because of fighting between the government and the rebels. They've been fighting a civil war there for years, North Sudan, South Sudan, ethnic cleansing.

We used to send money back in the 80s thinking this would help the families, but stopped when we realized very little actually went to help people.

We once worked overseas and our equipment was - "held hostage" by the locals

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customs agents. The company we worked for said no way would they pay the bribe as that just sets a precedence.

There is so much corruption there on every level.

Have you ever seen the movie Machine Gun Preacher? - It's a true story about a fomer biker

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turned preacher who tried to save Sudanese children.

In the early 90s I thought the Arabs were doing horrible things - to the Africans who I thought were

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Christians, but later found out were animists. They at least spared women and children. Now I see that after the Arabs are gone, the sub-Saharan Africans are even worse to each other.

A number of factors have led up to this, including dictatorships, coups, dividing the country along sectarian lines,

They wanted the Colonial powers out and now they - want aid from the Colonial powers

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they ousted.

I had childhood friends that were white farmers in Rhodesia. They escaped with their lives and their neighbors were slaughtered. The bread basket is now a dust bowl. They shouldn’t have killed the white farmers. Now the media will try and make me feel guilty because I drive a gas guzzling suv that caused global warming and dried up their farm land. I refuse to feel guilty.

You're going to see a lot of opinion pieces like this, - with headlines like Trump cutting foreign

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aid, probably will have the word draconian in there somewhere.

Like Zimbabwe. It’s the corrupt dictator and his cronies who steal from the people, enrich themselves, and who destroyed the agricultural sector.

Same with Venezuela. Venezuela is a reminder that no - country is so rich that it can't

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be driven into the ground by revolutionary socialism. It's not the fault of the West.

If you eat all the corn but then don’t plant any and take away the incentive from those who use to plant corn, it doesn’t matter if you find that there are still a few fields with corn. You will eventually decimate those too, and unless incentive returns there is no long term solution. This is the fruit of socialism.

The rich are eating well in Venezuela. "If you have - money there is champagne, vodka,

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Belgian chocolates, lobster, brand-name clothes, exclusive restaurants … nightclubs, beaches … yachts, golf clubs—a whole country within a country...

the phenomenon stems from corruption in import processes, subsidies by the government, and the existence of buying, re-selling and smuggling of subsidized essential goods by "bachaqueros", linked to Colombian paramilitary groups.

These chains are then able to set their own prices to the value of the dollar, they are not regulated by the government.

Maybe a little paranoid? Just sayin - I saw Trump's name

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mentioned in this article briefly. Clinton's name was the very first name mentioned. I don't believe the article implied at all that it is "Trump's fault."

I do believe that not just us but many countries are going there, stripping their country of it's resources and leaving the country. It is honorable that your church and many others are doing this. I also agree that much of it is the dictatorships because I'm sure companies pay these dictators well for their resources and do believe that none of the wealth from this gets to the people. What your church and other's do is very beneficial to the people over there by helping them directly.

I feel climate change does have a part in it too, whether global warming or just natural weather change, as this article indicates it doesn't factor in. Weather is changing everywhere. There is flooding and drought like we have never seen and it is getting worse.

We and other countries have always taken advantage of these poor countries for many years, slavery ring a bell? It was not the working folks like you and I that did this, it was another example of the wealthy corporations taking advantage of them and leaving folks like in your church and other groups of regular people going in there to try and help these people.

Just my thoughts on it.

Houthis and their allies, including both former members of the Yemeni - military and Iran have been

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fighting for over 2 years now. They've been blocking humanitarian aid they even attack US ships in the area.

I like do research for factual evidence, which takes patience. When I see "Western Imperialism" my spidey senses go up.

Another UN failure. Africa has trillions in natural - resources and can't prosper.

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They got rid of so called colonialism/imperialism, so how can it be explained that these people of clans, tribes and cultures who were given their countries back are not better off?

Perhaps it could be explained by an Islamic war on civilization.

MSM Trump's fault, America's fault, Israel's fault. - nm

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nm

"Foreign aid" is nothing more than money taken from - poor people in rich countries

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and given to rich people in poor countries.

See Hillary Clinton’s Haiti “relief” program...

Does it make you feel good to bring in just - Hillary? Do you think

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she is the only one? Do you remember the Katrina disaster in our own country?

Since when is MintPress MSM? Where in this - article did it say it was

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Trump's fault? Whose fault is it? I happen to agree that we and other countries have taken advantage of these poor countries along with the dictators that run them. By we, I don't mean you and I, I mean wealthy corporations who go in take advantage of them.

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