I’d argue that it might have been Ebola, or some other pandemic — and we overcame Ebola not with aircraft carriers<br />but with humanitarian assistance and medical research — both of which are slashed in the Trump budget.<br />By slashing humanitarian aid, increasing the risk that people starve in the four countries — Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and Nigeria.<br />In particular, the catastrophe in Yemen — the country with the greatest number of people at risk of famine — should be an international scandal.<br />“We are facing the largest humanitarian crisis since the creation of the United Nations,” warned Stephen O’Brien, the U. N.’s humanitarian chief.<br />Humanitarian aid is one of the world’s great success stories, for the number of people living in extreme poverty has dropped by half since 1990,<br />and more than 120 million children’s lives have been saved in that period.<br />He became a brilliant student, went to college and earned a master’s degree in the U. S. Today he works<br />for Catholic Relief Services in Ghana, having decided he wants to devote his life to giving back.<br />He said that “the great danger” is a domino effect — that the U. S. action encourages other countries to back away as well.<br />That Food Saved My Life,’ and Trump Wants to Cut It Off -<br />First, a quiz: What is the most important crisis in the world today?<br />In the United States, humanitarian aid has been a bipartisan tradition,<br />and the champion among recent presidents was George W. Bush, who started programs to fight AIDS and malaria that saved millions of lives.<br />In effect, the Saudis have managed to block coverage of the crimes against humanity they are perpetrating in Yemen, and the U. S. backs the Saudis.
