Starving Children
In the midst of what may already be the most expensive and well-publicized war in history, we find that there are innocents whose suffering is intensified by this action far from the desert battlefields.
Children descended from African-American former slaves are starving to death in the Liberian cities decimated during the recent civil war at the rate of five to 10 per day. The BBC reported that efforts to raise $14 million for emergency food aid have been virtually ignored; $14 million is only 1.4% of the estimated cost of one day of fighting in the Gulf War.
In the battle over guns or butter, butter loses again.
ERIC A. JOHNSON
Long Beach
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