I’d argue that it might have been Ebola, or some other pandemic — and we overcame Ebola not with aircraft carriers
but with humanitarian assistance and medical research — both of which are slashed in the Trump budget.
By slashing humanitarian aid, increasing the risk that people starve in the four countries — Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and Nigeria.
In particular, the catastrophe in Yemen — the country with the greatest number of people at risk of famine — should be an international scandal.
“We are facing the largest humanitarian crisis since the creation of the United Nations,” warned Stephen O’Brien, the U. N.’s humanitarian chief.
Humanitarian aid is one of the world’s great success stories, for the number of people living in extreme poverty has dropped by half since 1990,
and more than 120 million children’s lives have been saved in that period.
He became a brilliant student, went to college and earned a master’s degree in the U. S. Today he works
for Catholic Relief Services in Ghana, having decided he wants to devote his life to giving back.
He said that “the great danger” is a domino effect — that the U. S. action encourages other countries to back away as well.
That Food Saved My Life,’ and Trump Wants to Cut It Off -
First, a quiz: What is the most important crisis in the world today?
In the United States, humanitarian aid has been a bipartisan tradition,
and the champion among recent presidents was George W. Bush, who started programs to fight AIDS and malaria that saved millions of lives.
In effect, the Saudis have managed to block coverage of the crimes against humanity they are perpetrating in Yemen, and the U. S. backs the Saudis.
