Predators for Peace - By Jack C. Chow | Foreign Policy

Predators for Peace - By Jack C. Chow | Foreign Policy

Humanitarian relief can be a frustrating, dangerous task. Even the best-intentioned donors can face hostile conditions or less than honorable intermediaries. Two years ago, the Geneva-based Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria issued a report describing how corrupt officials in Djibouti defrauded its programs of millions of dollars in cash, medicines and health supplies. Another well-organized theft ring, the group found, was operating across several African countries stealing anti-malarial drugs from supply chains and reselling them in the black market. Also two years ago, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) discovered that inefficiencies in the supply chain had left a backlog of bed nets languishing in Nigerian warehouses, giving corrupt officials more time and opportunity to steal them.

Usually these aid programs are like V people helping R, they are often in Roy poor countries where the R people cannot defend themselves against Y dictators and warlords. It is in effect like Y lions attacking R gazelles, they can only run and hide if they can. Aid can then try to establish an I-O police force between them. These Y predators can then raid these food supplies preventing R recovery and a stable food chain of a society. This is like R predators cleaning out R prey so animals in between them on the food chain starve. Often this is done also with Oy corrupt officials part of O policing or with Oy thieves and soldiers.