More good intentions

"Simply be happy that they’re wanting to help..."

And therein lies the rub. This is the exact point of comments made earlier to the effect that liberals want credit simply for good intentions. A handful of good intentions is worth exactly nothing. Liberals like to cover their failures with good intentions. "Well, we screwed up and assisted some tinpot dictator in accomplishing genocide, but we really meant well." I imagine that's a great deal of comfort to all those souls buried in secret mass graves. Some liberal meant well, but now you're dead. So sorry. Better luck next time.

As for whether these good intentions are better than sideline naysayers, I'm not so sure. Sideliners never managed to line the pockets of some petty despot or fund his death squads. If I'm an average African farmer and I have the choice between someone watching me from the sidelines, doing nothing, and someone getting me killed with good intentions, I think I'll pick the former, thanks all the same.

Charity is not intended for show. A very wise man once said, "Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward." Charity is also not intended to net gain the giver in anything but a spiritual sense. Look deep into the end result of the actions of these people. Not their intentions, but the end result.