African Famine - The Proportionality Filter - "George W Bush Was The Greatest Operator Of Rescue Operations For Blacks In Hurricane Katrina"

Associated Press: US Is Biggest Giver Of Horn Of Africa Famine Aid

The headlines from the Associated Press which touts the "charity" of the United States government in supporting the famine in East Africa does not define the DIMENSIONS of the aggregate needs and demands for food and distribution services - and the TIMELINESS of delivery there in.  

The title only makes an enumeration of the population of those on the outside who have "given" and the USA has come out at the top - once the data in the spreadsheet is sorted.

If we aggregate all of the "giving" - this sum total might still be 45% of what is needed in aggregate.   Is it then relevant that the USA was the "top dog" in the shortfall?

What if George W Bush, in the late fall of 2005 - after suffering from blistering attacks about the response to Hurricane Katrina - ordered the US Coast Guard and all Military Reserve forces to provide him with data as to the helicopter sorties that were run into the flooded zones in order to 'save Black people'?    If the report found that indeed 5,000 individual rescue operations were reported and then he used this report in order to push back his critics - would this data be accepted in an unchallenged form?

Of course the report would be scrutinized for:

• Scale of the need


• The associated comprehensiveness of the response


• The timeliness of the response 


• The incumbent responsibility of the various entities of government who failed their fiduciary duties

Why do we hold our "ideological enemies" to such struct and dispassionate accounting yet we are so impressed with the "size of our friend's CHECK LIST" on what they have done for "us"?

Worse yet - the fact that the "equal human beings" who are local and proximate upon the African continent - with political conflicts at the root of the lack of human and infrastructure systems being erected to prevent this dysfunction of the food and water supplies does not receive ample mention.

If we consider that the various Non-Governmental Organizations have been engaged in this region for decades - feeding the people but somehow not changing their operational priorities as one "equal human being" engages with another "equal human being" - can we conclude that anything more than a mere "maintenance operation" is occurring?

If we are asked to value people equally and prove it as we work as "our brother's keeper" - what do we ultimately ask of them, to prove that they too value each other on an equal footing?