I'm Astounded - NB

Submitted by helen porath (Israel), Aug 23, 2011 at 01:47

All the years that pirates off the coast of Somalia caused loss of life and destruction of property to world-wide shipping, no need was felt by the rest of the world to stop them.

And now in Somalia there is starvation and death, caused in part by the drought, but also by the muslims who are obstructing the passage of food and supplies to the people.

Where are the airplanes of NATO in these cases?

Surely the suffering in Somalia is more urgent a problem than the "lack of democracy" in Libya.

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