You keep bringing up child soldiers (specific to Sierra Leone and Angola). Mind you, Iraq and Afganistan are not in Africa. A lot has changed and may yet change for the better there, it is just that you are terribly insensitive and ignorant about it.

Do me a favor next time you meet a war veteran (who will readily give his life ten times over to save a child if asked to) that you yelled on some forum on the internet how children are not deserving of any help because charities suck, and that you chose to say insensitive garbage in regards to such initiatives and encouraged people not to donate because you personally decided war veterans are more deserving. See how they’ll react to that.

Have a nice day!

Go be liberal-butthurt somewhere else. If you want to give money to Africans (who will surely use them wisely as they did in last several decades – oh wait), that’s your problem.

Edit: also, Czech society in fact DOES support its vets. What we need is the right incentive. By now, over 5600 USD has been collected for people who served their country and achieved something – speaking of achievements, places with “child soldiers” are still shitholes, nothing has changed in decades and after millions of dollars thrown out of the window.

THEY have to want to change. No amount of money will fix that.

FTR said: “I am sometimes astounded by the lack of common sense in Europe and USA. No, they do not need European money. In fact, this money will most likely not reach them, it will end up split between the charity itself and some local corrupted officials, as it always did before.

And EVEN if these “child soldiers” recieved the money, what then? Will it make their lives suddenly better? Or will it get spent and it’s the same old shit over and over?

It’s THEIR problems. They need to deal with it, within their society. If their society creates child soldiers, it’s that society’s fault, not ours.”

Anyway just giving feedback, I still like your blog as it’s full of good info too , keep up the good work.