Quote Originally Posted by davidbfpo View Post
Not seen this before, but it makes sense - earlier in the article:
Over the past half-century, Canada and other developed countries have invested more than $60-billion in assistance to the countries of the Sahel. Does it not make sense to protect such a huge investment in the lives and welfare of something like half a billion Africans?
It's the classic sunk costs fallacy. Irrationality at work. Keep the man away from influence, he would do a lot of nonsense.