(October 7, 2010 at 7:49 am)A Theist Wrote: I think the more immediate needs for Africa would be food, clean water, medicine, and doctors.
Yeah, try getting food, clean water, medicine and doctors into Sudan. It's not going to happen. If the people were educated, they could handle that without outside help.
(October 7, 2010 at 7:49 am)A Theist Wrote: Another problem for Africans, and many other third world countries as well, are their very own greedy, corrupt, oppressive governments.
Which is precisely why it is nearly impossible to help them. Their governments stop us from helping them, as if anybody's really helping them.
(October 7, 2010 at 7:49 am)A Theist Wrote: Disease, war, famine, and political corruption are the things that have to be dealt with first in Africa.
You don't think those things could be dealt with through proper education? It may not happen tomorrow, but it would happen in the next generation, which is better than the outlook now. How else can we deal with it? Oh, we could go in and wage war on their corrupt governments. I think I prefer education.
Famine is very often a direct result of war. It's rather difficult to produce food in a war-torn country.
