Humanitarian aid to the developing world got started in the ’60s, and since then it has become more and more a part of the establishment it once opposed. Shop ▾ Once aid is political, once it is no longer a neutral, unequivocal good but an opinion or a strategy or even the means to execute a military campaign, it will find opponents. There is a school of thought, popular in the aid world, that you can kill terrorism with kindness. Whether you’re attacked by Islamic intolerants in the Middle East or Africa or Christian insurgents in central Africa or Buddhist militants in Burma or renegade Irish nationalists, the argument runs that almost all insurrection is an expression of...
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