One of the damning statistics of my youth sounded like this: For the price we paid for the Viet Nam war we could have built every citizen of North Viet Nam and South Viet Nam a 9-room, air-conditioned, split level house.
Similarly, Mr. Kristoff's heart-rending story of a starving African mother and her children (link above to today's NYT article), raises equally disturbing questions: For the price of one application on every cell phone in the world, could we feed the starving?
The problem now is not war, it is greed.
The problem now is not war, it is greed.
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