Children are starving to death in East Africa. Famine has overwhelmed aid agencies. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) says that more than 11 million people desperately need life-saving food aid.
Will Americans respond? History suggests that they will.
America has a long and deep humanitarian tradition of responding to the cries of the hungry, wherever they may be. We saw that in Haiti following the massive earthquake there in 2010. But American humanitarianism has a history that reaches much farther back.
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