Share the Wealth

According to President Bush, the United States has been developing a plan over the past few years that can bring Africa into a "healthy, prosperous country." However, from what the media shows through newspapers and television, Africa is suffering more than ever.
In Africa, there are 12 million orphans who live with aids; and there are 38 million people who live under the threat of starvation. Ironically, private organizations such as missionarys and medical groups are traveling to Africa now more than ever before. Yet the countries in Africa continue to go down hill and the hope of reform seems so far off. It is the job of the government to step in and stop the horrors which occur every day. Rather than sending thousands more troops to Iraq, George Bush should send troops to suffering countries such as Uganda who are basically ignored. The national debt has reached an alltime high of $8 trillion dollars and 90% of that money has been thrown towards the Iraq conflict. Perhaps the government should have used some of that money to buy food for other humans to eat; rather than on guns to blow other humans up.
Knowing that there are other human beings in the world suffering because they were born into a horrible situation is heartbreaking. I remember being in second grade and having a class lesson about the starving children in Ethiopia. My teacher showed our class pictures of kids, the same age as me, laying in the African savannah dying because they hadn't eaten in months. Though this was many years ago, this particular instance still stands out in my head and made me question then, just as I am now, couldn't our rich country do anything to prevent the untimely deaths of these poor people?