While I totally agree with most of the sentiments you have expressed I do need to point out one issue I have with your comment: >There is after all no intrinsi

While I totally agree with most of the sentiments you have expressed I do need to point out one issue I have with your comment: >There is after all no intrinsic reason Africans can't provide food and water and medicine for themselves just as people do in Europe and America and large parts of what used to be the Third World. What's missing is knowhow and organization. This comment is totally ignorant of the scale of the problems faced in the third world. Ridding ourselves of corruption and getting together a solid plan still leaves us with massive problems to fix. Truly, MASSIVE problems. It is the scale that requires capital and make no mistake that the first world has no small amount of complicity in the current state of the rest of our world. I agree with you that money isn't going to solve it all. Throwing money at it is largely a case of too little too late.