[Skybird]

At times I consder sending assassins a valid political option. It cannot be that millions have to suffer becasue of the greed of a cruel old man. Ruling that out is not democratic or humanistic, but cynical.

We should stop conventional develoepemnt aid, becasue it helps to raise and foster corruption throughout Africa. Africa has plenty of fertile land to feed all the people living there. But it is the corrupt gangaster clans stealing it and preventing distribution. And they do the same with developement aide, both in food and money. that way, we become guilty ourselves. Instead we should shift the agriculutral trad eonto a fair basis. Anything beyond that we should only do once African people have dealt with their corrupt leaders and dictators. Of course, one would need to get the EU, the Us, the chinese and the russians all together into that boat. since that is highly unrealistic, corruption will stay, people will continue to suffer, the West will continue to pay money in developement aid to ease it's bad subcontious feelings - and by doing so we will continue to cripple the local agriculture with our cheap imports that kick local farmers out of business, and we will be guilty of actively supporting the corruption and the suffering - by developement aid.

Send assassins, or turn your back on Africa. That would at least be more honest. Developement aid causes havoc over there. Since some years you can hear a gropwing canon of African politiaicnas themselves saying that. they do not want aid. They want fair trade - THAT would be developement aid leading to a fostering of local farming, food production and modeate wealth a slong as local gangsters would not be tolerated, but shot.