Another African country another situation involving commercial flights. In Niger a drought has reduced the already second poorest nation to mass starvation with an estimated 175,000 children near death. The U.N. is trying to raise a pitiful 30 million dollars in food aid, but predicts a 2 month delay until supplies can begin delivery. We spend more than that before breakfast in Iraq and our services are bloated with excess C130s a senator imposed on them in another pork barrel fiasco. Reality is Niger has no strategic or economic importance compared even to the warload bully boys of Somalia, except perhaps a unknown potential Mozart or Einstein slipping into final sleep from septicemia while flies crawl over his face.I WILL NOT FLY UNTIL PLANES LAND THERE WITH RELIEF. I'll walk first, just like a refugee.