re: #70 McSpiff

It’s not right or wrong. It simply matters what the goal of your program is. If you simply want to treat AIDS victims then only supplying medicine is fine. If you want to stop the spread of AIDS, you block the spread of HIV/AIDS, which is an STI. So you either convince people to not have sex, or you provide them with the tools to block the spread of HIV/AIDS.

From the results it looks like Bush’s AIDS program has done a great deal to deliver medicine to those suffering and to reduce the infection rate. No doubt more can be done, but this looks like an attempt to find some sin of omission in one of the most altruistic acts by any American President in history.

All Americans should be proud of what George Bush and America has done to help ease the suffering in Africa.

We should also all support doing more, including providing more birth control and other food and medicine. And indeed the rest of the world should step up and lend a hand and perhaps even the Africans need to take some responsibility as well for their own lives. Though I’m not at all convinced that it is America’s responsibility to provide unlimited condoms to all the men in Africa.