Interestingly, Rwanda, a black country in the heart of Africa, merely 30 years after a horrific genocide, is much better off. (As was Israel, a nation founded

Interestingly, Rwanda, a black country in the heart of Africa, merely 30 years after a horrific genocide, is much better off. (As was Israel, a nation founded by Holocaust survivors in a very hostile region, or Poland, bombed to shreds in the Second World War.) In our compassion to the permanently weak, it is easy to overlook the ones who started out in similar position, but eventually outgrew their problems.