I read that book, it's great.

I mentioned jamesn because he gives me a 30 second synopsis of a situation/problem/solution before you've even rephrased my question back to me.

I think "the west" has ruined Africa. We should have either stayed there- ruled, dominated, cared for and exploited them, or we should have left them the hell alone. Flying in bales of dollars did not help them at all, and in fact has hurt them.

Every time I see a photo of a newly discovered Amazonian tribe I wonder how much longer it will be until we see them on infomercials wearing five year old superbowl losing team t-shirts standing in lines for a bowl of gruel, too weak to swat away the flies.

Edit: I know the Amazonian tribes are in South America- we've already fucked Africa over.