text: While I feel for the innocent people caught in the middle, I have to take a stance against more food aid.  Simple reason is the corruption; most of the aid is stolen, then sold and the ones who benefit are the a-holes that are the cause of most of the problems in the first place, the despots and warlords. It's useless, it doesn't reach the people who need it and it strengthens the positions of those that cause and exacerbate the problems. Just give the warlords more guns and cut out the middle man, because that's what food aid is doing anyway. In South Sudan, embezzlement  estimates range from $4-10 Billion in a 10 year period, there's already billions in food aid that's been given - and promptly stolen. Is the plan to just keep pouring dump trucks of money into the country and hope they can't steal it as fast as we can give it away?