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Sad priorities

Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2005-06-03 17:45:44 - Graham Ellis

I was just watching the gentleman who was the US's ambassador to Ethiopia from 1996 to 1999 on the TV. He was saying that we shouldn't expect the USA to fund any new plans for poverty relief in Africa that are proposed at the forthcoming G8 summit, as the USA is already stretched economically. He reminded us that they're busy spending their money on fighting wars in Afganistan, Iraq, and "The global war against terrorism".

Isn't it sad that we live in a world where the priorities have been set as such, for whatever reason.