I am sickened by that Kristoff's ideas!
The US should only be supplying free contraceptives. Nothing more. They are, and should be, responsible for their own lives.
The ugly fact is they'll attack anyone, who says people should be, and need to be able to look after themselves.
The Christian spirit, is not in Jesus feeding some people fish and bread, it's in telling Satan he won't test God's patience jumping off a cliff.
They formed Liberia, to get out of the slavery system, it's a symbolic country with James Madison there or somewhere, and yet, if they aren't economically and financially free, they will never get out of wage slavery.
Monrovia is named after James Monroe, not Madison.
Whatever.
They shouldn't be having so many kids, if you want to play God, in testing his grace, when they clearly can't afford it.
There's research, that they get so many kids because they only want one to survive out of a few, that's what you aren't fixing with USAID.
The only way to help them, is with real leadership, with bargaining tariffs and US exports or import deals, in exchange for politics.
Because they use coercion themselves, they use blackmail in their politics, they are used to prostituting their people's freedoms for their gain.
So that only makes sense as the next real step, in restoring basic, baseline independence, self determination and dignity.
They were for too long, testing America's patience, on one hand, spitting, at us, then on the other hand, splitting the loot, with the worst that they have.
We must never bow down to them, they must bow to us, they're getting tough love, not tough hate, so they can get off their feet kneeling, and on their feet for real.
I can go to say so to the parents or friends of those USAID cuts cost lives, but the warlords, the real problems, the cruel people they chose to deify, that give that girl 4th out of 100th place in the classrooms, for memorizing textbooks of anti American hate, anti freedom, anti capitalism, they won't.