Charitable Diplomacy Fails in Africa
Sen. Patty Murray argued awhile back that the US could make more friends by building day care centers around the world to compete with Osama bin Laden and his charitable good works. She has just been proved completely wrong. In an attempt to avoid a humanitarian disaster in Africa, President Bush proposed increasing funding to $15 billion to fight the aids epidemic that is killing millions of africans. In a show of appreciation, 52 african countries chose not to support the liberation of Iraq from a despot responsible for a million deaths not associated with aids, but instead embraced the side the axis of weasals while being treated to French whine (a pun not a typo) in Paris this weekend. This raises the question of how much aid the French have offered to stop this epidemic, or how much Saddam has offered. It is likely that Saddam's only interest in aids would be in how he might add it to his arsenal of bilogical weapons. Perhaps they were overwhelmed with the fear that their people might someday be liberated from the thugocracies like the ones in Sudan and Zimbawe. In those two countries the governments have managed to put more people in jeopardy of dying from famine than aids. But, the French seem to think they can do business with them.
Sen. Patty Murray argued awhile back that the US could make more friends by building day care centers around the world to compete with Osama bin Laden and his charitable good works. She has just been proved completely wrong. In an attempt to avoid a humanitarian disaster in Africa, President Bush proposed increasing funding to $15 billion to fight the aids epidemic that is killing millions of africans. In a show of appreciation, 52 african countries chose not to support the liberation of Iraq from a despot responsible for a million deaths not associated with aids, but instead embraced the side the axis of weasals while being treated to French whine (a pun not a typo) in Paris this weekend. This raises the question of how much aid the French have offered to stop this epidemic, or how much Saddam has offered. It is likely that Saddam's only interest in aids would be in how he might add it to his arsenal of bilogical weapons. Perhaps they were overwhelmed with the fear that their people might someday be liberated from the thugocracies like the ones in Sudan and Zimbawe. In those two countries the governments have managed to put more people in jeopardy of dying from famine than aids. But, the French seem to think they can do business with them.
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