I am afraid of the day when my cynicism/education will be complete and I’ll just say to every bad news story like this one, “Well, what did you expect? Foreign Aid is a business, not a charity.” It makes me think of that Simpson’s episode where Homer makes an IT company, hoping that Bill Gates will buy him out, only to have Bill Gates’ thugs break up his ‘office.’ Bill Gates’ priceless explanation, “I didn’t become the world’s richest man by signing checks, Homer.”

Same goes for the US, I suppose, and other wealthy, developed countries. They didn’t get there by signing billion-dollar development plans for foreign economies.