Quote Originally Posted by TheCurmudgeon View Post
And yet I her no one screaming for us to use the "prime directive" and let these children die as they should to maintain the integrity of the natural system.
Dropping all USAID–type funding wouldn’t really leave a natural system in place in Sub-Saharan Africa. The U.S. (and not just the U.S., of course) would still indirectly play a role in the local ecology via things like our funding and regulation of the pharmaceutical industry and such as that.