Trump’s foreign aid nightmare
Five hundred metric tons of American-grown food that was to feed 1.5 million starving children in foreign countries will soon be incinerated by the Trump administration. Millions of people, many children, will die of malnutrition because Trump wants supreme control. This issue is time-sensitive.
Here are some concerns about Trump’s foreign policy. Humanitarian: People are starving to death when the USA can help without harming anyone. International shame: The world watches as Trump starves children. A reasonable demand: The strong can and must help the weak. We have a moral imperative to feed the hungry. Stop food, support terrorists; save food, win friends.
Trump rejects soft diplomacy, and this move is uneconomic. It wastes the $800,000 to buy the food and the $130,000 to incinerate it, hurting Americans by wasting food that American farmers grew. The US government will not buy future farmers’ product in the future.
It sets a bad example. When a strong USA ignores death, others may do so as well, and it is mean spirited, savage and unamerican to starve children to make a political point. Americans don’t starve children. Finally, it’s bad politics. You don’t make international allies by starving children.
This list could continue; however, if I haven’t made my point by now, there is no reason to keep going. We need a bipartisan way to help those in need.
John Atherton
Dover