New Delhi, March 26 -- "They have money for war but can't feed the poor."

Tupac Shakur makes a direct accusation through this quote. It is deliberately impossible to argue with. Tupac identified one of the most enduring contradictions of modern governance and dared anyone in power to explain it.

Shakur said this as a young Black man from Compton and Harlem. He grew up watching his community go without while the country spent billions on weapons, conflicts and military operations overseas. The anger behind the line is real. But what makes it stick across decades is that it is not just anger. It is logic.

The quote exposes a priority problem. Governments across the world routinely find enormous sums of money when they decide a war is nec...