If in all honesty, one acknowledges that there are world governments quite indisputably engaged: in acts of repression and of exploitation of their people, in fostering unnecessary military build-ups, in enacting and condoning fiscally irresponsible measures, in taking environmentally irresponsible decisions (or allowing a laissez-faire attitude on this...then I contend with others that withholding international bilateral or multilateral non-emergency assistance is justifiable in quite a few cases --unless certain minimum conditions are met by such recipient governments.