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06/10/05  The President joins Prime Minister Tony Blair in the idea of giving billions more in aid to Africa, absent any enforceable requirement of reform.  The affairs and depredations of Africans, in the absence of security threats to the United States, is the business of Africans, not the American taxpayer.  Charitable aid and assistance directly to those in need, and there are millions, is a worthy endeavor on a voluntary basis, privately offered.  Once again, our President's instinct of good intentions is running ahead of the charter of his office and Conservative principles, and indeed is re-enforcing the individuals and institutions in Africa that are the cause of the mayhem.   Mr. President, you are acting as a Liberal "do-gooder", and the consequences will be the same.  So it goes with all Republicans harboring the wish of reconciliation with lefties as retirement dawns.  Notice that this instinct rarely works in reverse, evidence of the decades long institutionalization of leftist collectivism.  Conservatives can claim victory at the point when these default instincts are reversed.  JES

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