Aid for Somalia
Why won’t the United States lead the United Nations in showing the same commitment to hundreds of thousands of starving Somalis as was shown in the re-establishment of Kuwaiti sovereignty and protection of Mid-East oil?
Is protection of oil and the small relatively privileged Kuwaiti population more important than the very survival of up to 2 million Somalis? The U.S. and U.N. could get “more bang for the buck” by intervening against barely armed teen-age marauders in Somalia than against well-armed ethnic factions intent on mutual destruction and “ethnic cleansing” in Bosnia-Herzegovina. What happened to American values, Mr. Bush?
STEVEN DORNBUSCH
Los Angeles
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