Choose one.. Death by murder or death by starvation?

[SoCalDem]

That's Darfur.

It would seem that either way, the outcome is the same. We are only quibbling over the delivery-system of death.

Every country on earth that claims to care, should just ask themselves if they even care whether those people live at all. To prevent the murder, only to choose starvation is not a "win".

People who live in harsh places, and live "on the edge' their whole lives have NO margin for error, and no matter how much emergency food and or protection, these are bandaids on a gaping wound.

How will they be made whole again? Will they be protected in every little village they used to have? How will they survive without the men who were killed? Who will rebuild their homes? With what money?

In my lifetime, I have seen so many "starvations"..and ultimately they were all political in nature..

remember Ethiopia?
remember China?
remember Biafra?
remember Bangladesh?
remember Somalia?

Political corruption and the refusal of country leaders who stop food distribution or confiscate lands needed to grow food, are what's causing the trouble... there IS food available.. what's lacking is political stewardship and decency .

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. "Poverty is the worst form of violence." - Gandhi

"We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent." Isabel Allende

[H2O Man]

2. Those are great quotes.

I remember reading the Gandhi saying years ago. It is powerful.