Due to the extreme violence and warring factions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, there are now more than 30,000 people in the Congo that are cut off from any humanitarian aid and they are displaced from their homes. This people are unable to be reached because of the potential risk of the violence levels in the area. This is a common event in the Congo according to Mickael Amar, the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council. These humanitarian activities are commonly stopped for about 15 days and after those days support levels return to normal.
This is one of the horrible effects of the huge warring factions within the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Just having 30,000 people displaced would be bad enough, let alone 30,000 people displaced totally without support. Many of them will die. The United States should be doing all we can to be helping the Congolese people. This does not mean invasion, quite the opposite actually. We should be giving them as much humanitarian support as possible instead of bombing random people in the Middle East. Instead of killing Iraqi and Syrian children with missiles, we should be helping more children in the Middle East and war torn Africa live. This is what I don't understand about US foreign policy. We do things for our own interests, under the guise of fighting for "democracy" and "freedom". Often times, to the Iraqi and Syrian citizens (along with all of the other Middle Eastern and African countries we are currently bombing), we are the terrorists we say we want to annihilate.
