Ed Driscoll writes about the release of a “Live Aid” DVD, and the philosophy of help put forth–endlessly–by the left.
The Who performed their ’70s anthem, “We Won’t Get Fooled Again.” The Boomer and MTV generations frequently forget how often they get fooled again.
While Live Aid was spectacular television, it was just another in a series of Big Events from people who believed that throwing money at a problem eventually solves it. Eerily, it forecast how the left would interact with Iraq: Substitute Mengistu for Saddam Hussein and it’s amazing how all the rest of the players stay the same–the BBC, the United Nations, and celebrities who believe that despots can be reasoned with to do the right thing. We won’t get fooled again? Of course you will.
I spent some time in Mengitsu’s Ethiopia. The famine was simply a weapon of mass destruction, the oldest and most often used. Money and food sent to Ethiopia had to go through his hands, and he wasn’t going to let his enemies receive any of it.
Kinda like Oil for Food.
You neglect to mention that Live Aid and other famine relief concerts all but wiped out world starvation and human suffering in the late 80’s. If only more people had come together to form that great human chain in Hands Across America, we’d be living in Utopia today.
Comment by Liberal Larry — December 21, 2004 @ 12:24 pm