If we, as a nation, can help another we should. Class 101 in good diplomatic relations. Anybody remember 'honour-bound' as a concept? We have myriad treaties and agreements across the globe, some historical but still binding, that either restrict or allow trade and commerce and all the complicated etceteras that go with these things and most rely on good faith to flourish as they have always done. They're not based on 'shouldas, wouldas or ifs. They're concrete things which have to be considered and sometimes our access to minerals might involve building schools or piping water so 'we' do that because we agreed to, in some dusty deal done in a far off place on a long ago day. I'm not sure whether people know how foreign aid works when it eventually percolates down to village level and I'm also sure that some is diverted into already-stuffed pockets but I'm also convinced that it's not unnoticed nowadays and funds are traceable as never before. Not that any of that changes a whole helluvalot but foreign aid is something to be proud of not begrudge..