Kristof and "priorities"

Near the end of Kristof's final article on sex slavery, he questions the US's foreign policy priorities that allow sex trafficking to go at least partially unchecked overseas. He claims that it would be a simple matter to allocate either more resources or more time to the matter, and further, that it would make a significant impact on sex trafficking within the countries that we press on the matter.

While I, of course, find any kind of human trafficking deplorable, I find myself forced to question Kristof's optimism on this issue. While he doesn't ask any of the impossible, he fails to provide something that focus could be taken off of in favor of putting more effort towards pushing world governments on the subject of human trafficking. I cannot put too much blame on him for this, as it is an editorial piece in essence, but making pleas for the world to change solves nothing. He himself admitted to committing an act that does nothing but encourage brothels of this type to bring more women in, and ends without a substantial argument. It is a good story, and one that is worth telling, but it shouldn't be taken as much more than that, as Kristof is ultimately unable to inject more substance than that into it.