A moving Opinion Exchange article ("Please don't look away," July 26) describes a terrible drought in the Horn of Africa.
The most lethal humanitarian crisis in the world: Five hundred thousand at risk of starvation. Children dying because they are too weak to walk far enough to get food. UNICEF is pleading for $10 contributions, which would buy enough nutrients to keep a child alive for 10 days. Ten dollars!
And this country is spending more than a billion dollars a day waging simultaneous wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Libya. America has lost its soul.
I am making a contribution (that's embarrasingly small), and though others give more, the richest country in the world spends a tiny fraction to save children's lives compared with what it spends to kill and then kill some more.
DEAN DEHARPPORTE, EDEN PRAIRIE
