We've waited 20 years, until we have 36 million infected in the world, before we've started to do something, ... It's shocking how we've let this go on. And costs of intervening today are vastly greater than they would have been in the past and they'll be greater if we continue to dither on this. |
When countries open up to trade, they generally benefit, because they can sell more, then they can buy more. And trade has two-way gain. |
When is the last time anybody heard Vice President Dick Cheney even feign a word of concern for the world's poor? |
While the Bush administration is prepared to spend $100 billion to rid Iraq of WMD, it has been unwilling to spend more than 0.2% of that sum... this year on the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. |
White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues. |
You can't fight the greatest pandemic for years without resources, |