Massive Foreign Aid Is the Solution to Africa's Ills?

President Bush traveled to Africa in July. Those sympathetic to the President might say he went to show his charitable concern for the problems of Africa and his sincere care for the downtrodden of the world. But a less rose-tinted view might have shown an unprincipled but skillful political machine bolstering its image among centrist "liberals" and gamely trying to chip away at the Democratic Party's lock on black voters.

Whatever the motivations of the administration, the trip brought the partisans of American engagement in Africa out into the media spotlight. The president had thrown a bone to the foreign-aid community with his ...

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