A dark side to charity

The Weekly Standard discusses Live Aid, and the cruel dictator who twisted the world's generosity to aid his own evil plans.

There is one truth about famine in the world today: Famine only exists because humans allow it to exist. No longer are we at the mercy of nature; we are only at the mercy of world leaders. There is enough food to feed the entire world, but some leaders use starvation as a political tool.