Ted Rall for January 07, 2006
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Boy: No more lining up with a bowl for me - thanks to armaments without borders, my family is prosperous! Oh, and please send ammo. Man: A passenger jet! I'll be eating fat western tourists for months! Man 2: Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Give him an RPG-7 and he can take over his province! Traditional charities provide temporary help. Only one N.G.O. attacks poverty and hunger by empowering people militarily: ordnance sans frontieres This 8-year-old boy, once doomed to hunger and starvation in Saharan Africa, has become a proficient AK-47 gunman. We will! Despair is ancient history for this Tajik farmer-turned-stinger missile king. And Raytheon likes the business. Some might disagree with our methods, but there's no arguing with results.