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There is a very good blog post over on Conservativhome looking at the Bush years and trying to understand what went right and what went wrong. There are some interesting conclusions. Maybe history, as it does with many of its controversial leaders will treat George W better than the current press do. Here are just a couple of the quotes from the US press.
“Those who care about Africa tend to think that the appropriate attitude toward President Bush is a medley of fury and contempt.But the fact is that Mr. Bush has done much more for Africa than Bill Clinton ever did, increasing the money actually spent for aid there by two-thirds so far, and setting in motion an eventual tripling of aid for Africa.” – Nicholas Kristof, left-wing New York Times columnist
“[The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (Pepfar)] is the largest commitment ever made by any nation for a global health activity that’s dedicated to a single disease. I mean, that’s just not disputable. It has a prevention component, a treatment component, and a care component, but treatment is the centerpiece. The last number I’ve seen is that this initiative has led to treatment of more than 1.7 million people, most of them in Africa. Now, that’s not all the people who need treatment, but it’s a huge amount. Pepfar at least tripled our aid flow to Africa—I’m talking about total aid flow.” – Dr Michael Merson, an international AIDS researcher, who evaluated President Bush’s $15bn AIDS relief programme, PEPFAR.
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