Foreign aid for foreign AIDS

charity: from French, charite, "generosity and helpfulness toward the needy or suffering"; also: "aid given to those in need"

Charity is a Christian virtue, and in Judaism, it's what's known as a mitzvah - a good deed. Charity is also supposed to begin at home. So when governments and AIDS activists stridently - and successfully - extort charity from others, it is clear that the debate on AIDS drug prices, and drug prices in general, is turning into a cautionary tale of what happens when first principles are abandoned...