This rings true, though I believe more than eighty percent of us would feel sceptical about it-
"I am happily out of the political business. But I can offer some friendly advice to members of Congress, new and old. A thousand pressing issues come with each day. But there are only a few that you will want to talk about in retirement with your children. The continuing fight against global AIDS is something for which America will be remembered. And you will never regret the part you take."
In an earlier passage, he writes,
"During a presidency often forced to focus on issues of national security, the fight against global disease was sometimes viewed as an anomaly or exception. It wasn't and isn't. America has a direct stake in the progress and hope of other nations."
True or false, sincere or not, his observations are worth noting.
Out of curiosity, how different AIDS is to any other terminal disease?
ReplyDeleteThey all kill, of course.
ReplyDeleteI am quoting http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_pariahs_who_tamed_aids_wlzGePKFxw6JLJLh6oRgYP
"Back in 1994, the disease had reached an awful nadir. The number of US deaths from AIDS reached 41,699 that year, a new high. With no vaccines or effective drugs available, the death rate was 100 percent.
Just two years later, the cover of Newsweek asked if we were seeing "The End of AIDS?" The number of deaths that year was below 20,000 and falling. This number has stabilized and is now about 18,000 a year."
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Drug companies tamed AIDS--Josh Bloom - NYPOST.com