Why, when there are plenty of hungry mouths or healthcare deprived in the US (such that?

Government by definition is corrupt. That isn't my point. Helping people wherever you find them is worthy of praise but perhaps it is worth being curious why people are not willing to look around them for problems to solve and prefer to send money elsewhere at problems that they cant prove they helped solve at all.

Because some people are more more selfless than you evidently are. What the hell does it matter where a particular problem takes place? If you can help some starving people in Africa would you decline to do so just because you'd rather wine about your own corrupt government?

Gimme a break.

Luckly enough the US may be able to help itself but Africa cannot help itself ... we (the white man) screwed them over nicely by carving countries out of land which was never divided in countries; we ruled them for years on end and drained as many natural resources as possible. The story can go on but I will end here. It is our duty as human beings and citizens of this world to help those in need (Europe should actually pay Africans restitution but that's another story again).

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.