Kristoff: Let’s Start a War, One We Can Win

[Rose Siding]

.....(F)ormer President Carter, at 82, is leading a private war on disease that should inspire and shame President Bush and other world leaders into joining. It’s not just that Mr. Carter’s wars have been more successful than Mr. Bush’s; Mr. Carter is also rehabilitating the image of the U.S. abroad and transforming the lives of the world’s most wretched peoples. (For a video of Mr. Carter’s trip, please go to www.nytimes.com/ontheground.)

.....So I asked Mr. Carter whether President Bush should be pushing not for a possible war with Iran, but for a war on malaria.

“That would certainly be my preference,” he said. “I thought the war in Iraq was one of the worst mistakes our country ever made, and we’re possibly about to make an even worse mistake by precipitating a war with Iran. But I would like to see us shift away from war being a high priority, to diplomacy and benevolent causes.”

So, President Bush, how about if we as a nation join Mr. Carter’s war on diseases that afflict the world’s poorest peoples — and are one reason they are so poor. That’s a war that would unite Americans, not divide them. Come on, Mr. Bush, sound the trumpets!

http://welcome-to-pottersville.blogspot.com/2007/02/nicholas-d-kristof-lets-start-war-one.html

[GOPBasher]

1. Since that's such a damn good idea,

we can rest assured that there is no way in hell Bush would ever even consider it.

[PLF]

2. I'm sick of war metaphors, wars on everything

[bullimiami]

3. You did already. Haiti.