Aid and Afghanistan

Hooray! Another (self described) “crazy conservative” has responded to my blog! And its a good one. The response was to a previous post, “Human Security Over Military Security in Afghanistan?”.
Doesn’t the military presence there help a little with some of that security stuff? So shouldn’t it be we’re spending $107M a day on human security [...]

Human Security over Military Security in Afghanistan?

We are living in such a globalized world that even the most unrelated of issues impact each dramatically. Today I am talking about the war in Afghanistan, the food crisis, and the 2008 US presidential election.
According to a BBC News article, Children in the Bamiyan province are suffering from severe malnutrition and the resources to [...]

Financial Crisis Not An Excuse to Withold Aid

This relates to what I posted on yesterday with the world food crisis. Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and the Pope both came out to declare that the food crisis (which is much the same as the crisis of global poverty) is just as serious as the financial one, and linked to long-term human [...]

Ssshhh!

Bush is in Saudi Arabia as part of his tour of the Middle East, spreading democratic good will and the like.
Because I don’t think its the American president’s job to spread democracy, I can’t fault Bush for not talking about politics with his Saudi buddies. However, it still remains a highly hypocritical situation. With [...]