So is Somali and East Africa Going To Send Us Aid, When We Need It? THE USA IS BROKE!

United States Citizens and Elected Officials  STOP GIVING MILLIONS  IF NOT BILLIONS TO COUNTRIES THAT REMAIN IN TURMOIL, every-time the UN throws a pity party.  It’s bad enough US Tax payers are basically being gouged already paying for assistance to Refugees, Immigrants, non-Citizens and Citizens who have never paid a dime into anything.  Can’t officials  see  The United States is just one or two more crisis’s away (floods and droughts across the United States) from being in about the same boat as Somali or other third world nations. shera~

(CBS News)

A U.S. relief official says at least 29,000 Somali children have died in a famine that, day after day, is forcing hundreds of Somalis out of their own country.  For many, the desperate search for food, water, and medicine ends at a sprawling refugee camp in Kenya.

For one retired Marine Corps general, it’s deja vu on a tragic scale. CBS News correspondent Erica Hill reports that, regardless, retired Lt. Gen. Robert Johnston is relieved he got there at all.

He arrived at the world’s largest refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya, where more than 1,300 Somalis arrive each day, many trekking over a hundred miles, driven from their homes by the worst drought in 50 years, and Somalia’s second famine in 20 years.

One refugee told CBS News: “I had some goats and a big farm. Four years with no rain and the farm died.”

Lt. Gen. Johnson says the situation is a kind of flashback for him. He led the international mission to feed starving Somalis – Operation Restore Hope – in the 1990′s.

“What’s happening now is almost a mirror image of what happened 19 years ago,” Johnson said.

During the 1992 famine, Somalis gratefully welcomed the help of the international community. When a U.S. Black Hawk helicopter was shot down over Mogadishu on October 3rd, 1993, American empathy turned to outrage.

With the world economy stretched to the brink, and the U.S. military committed to two wars, America isn’t as willing, or able, to help.

“I don’t see them wanting to go in there again, and we’re surely not going to take the lead,” Johnston said.

Further complicating relief efforts is the fact that Somalia has been without a central government for two decades.

Armed factions are constantly at war, using food to buy loyalties and guns.more at source