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...major international charity has decided to turn down millions of dollars worth of grain from the U.S. government to feed the world's hungry because it believes America's method of delivering vital food supplies does more harm than good...
...Monetized food aid is not a major method of getting food to the developing world-only 22% of all food aid was sold rather than distributed in 2005. European countries all but phased out monetized food aid in the 1990s and the world's largest food aid distributor-the U.N.'s World Food Program-does not allow any of its grain to be sold by NGOs...
...with Congress, which is currently debating a new farm bill. And it is unlikely that other charities in the cash-strapped world of NGOs will follow CARE's lead and boycott a flawed but important form of government funding. Save the Children USA, which along with CARE is a major recipient of monetized food aid, called food aid a "vital resource," but added that it "shares CARE's frustration...
...They favored Romney, albeit grudgingly. "I voted for Romney because it's going to take a lot of money to beat the liberals. They've got Hollywood and the unions," said Steve Kruse of Ogden, who seemed unaware that Big Oil, agribusiness and a fair number of major auto dealers support his party of choice. Romney was able to purchase (at $35 per entrance ticket) the votes of Kruse and 4,515 others-and it was the prospect of the former Massachusetts Governor's financial firepower that scared Giuliani, McCain and the spectral Fred Thompson away from the event. Romney...
...bombings were also a reminder that even successful U.S. military operations can have a short shelf life - a sobering thought for Bush Administration officials and independent analysts who have recently been talking up the successes of the "surge." After all, the area around Qahataniya was the scene of a major anti-insurgent operation barely two years ago. In the fall of 2005, some 8,000 American and Iraqi troops flushed a terrorist group out of the nearby town of Tal Afar in an operation that was a precursor to the "clear, hold and build" strategy that underpins the current "surge...