Airport lines and developing virtues

J. PHARAOH DOSS
J. PHARAOH DOSS

In 2011 the United Nations World Food Program began emergency food airlifts to the drought-stricken Horn of Africa.
Sounds like a routine operation, but after the first airlift UN reports said, “Additional flights are expected to go next week …But were delayed by logistical problems in Kenya.”
In unofficial terms the famished, had to wait.
Most Americans saw the situation as problems of the “developing world” that are never encountered in the United States.
But which problem were these Americans proud of not encountering, starvation or waiting?
Recently, newspapers reported: Long Security Lines at Airports
And Americans all across the country had to wait.

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