Bush, the greatest humanitarian ever
Five million people are alive today because of PEPFAR
Published: 16:54 February 16, 2013
Washington: Which United States president will go down in history as the greatest humanitarian to have served in the office?
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But there’s one president whose contribution dwarfs all the others.
Unlike Hoover, he launched his programme while he was in office, and unlike FDR, he received virtually no votes in return, since most of the people who have benefited aren’t US citizens.
In fact, there are very few Americans around who even associate him with his achievement.
Who’s this great humanitarian? The name might surprise you: it’s George W. Bush.
It’s a tragedy that the foreign policy shortcomings of the Bush administration have conspired to obscure his most positive legacy — not least because it saved so many lives, but because there’s so much that Americans and the rest of the world can learn from it.
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