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...History hangs heavy on Africa in other ways, too. Aid was, in a sense, the compensation offered by a new generation of white Europeans for the sins of their imperial forefathers. But for all the poverty it alleviated and lives it saved, aid was also a distortion - free food diminished the need to farm, free money diminished the need for efficiency, and both diminished the need for self-reliance or entrepreneurs. Meanwhile, a revolutionary spirit simultaneously led directly to corruption and autocracy. Many rebel movements took as the righteous reward of struggle their country, its new foreign funding...
...BILLION U.S. military aid to Pakistan since 9/11...
Another hurdle is popular distrust in aiding China at all. The Japanese public questions why Japan should expend its resources assisting a nation that is rapidly becoming its chief competitor. The short answer is that if Japan doesn't, someone else will--and will reap the rewards. Yet Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs discontinued new loan projects to China this year, although existing loans will be honored, and other types of aid, like technical assistance, will continue...
...trips: McCain to Latin America, and Obama to Europe, Jordan, Iraq and Afghanistan. Bush's unpopular foreign policy record won't help McCain, but focusing the nation's attention overseas on trade, war and peace, and leadership credentials--and away from the U.S. economy and health care--can only aid the Republicans...
...June 27, Robert Mugabe stole an election. He did so in plain view of journalists, aid workers, diplomats and heads of state. His brutality before the vote resulted in the deaths of about 100 Zimbabweans, the detention of some 2,000, injury to 10,000 and the displacement of more than 200,000. His regime systematically burned down homes and tortured people who had the nerve to suggest they might choose a new President of Zimbabwe. Under Mugabe, life expectancy has dropped to 36 years...