January 27, 2003
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE OIL...:
U.S. Expands Afghan Aid for Maternal and Child Health (Judith Miller, January 27, 2003, NY Times)The Bush administration will spend $5 million this year to rebuild and expand the largest women's hospital in Kabul and to create four satellite teaching clinics for maternal and child health in other parts of Afghanistan, officials said yesterday.Officials said the Department of Health and Human Services and the Pentagon were joining forces to improve Kabul's Rabia Balkhi Women's Hospital and to open the clinics.
The commitment is the administration's latest effort to address the health needs of Afghanistan's 25 million people, and particularly Afghan women and children, who international health surveys show have among the world's worst health and greatest needs.
The additional money for women's health is the result of a visit that Tommy G. Thompson, the secretary of health and human services, made to Kabul last October. "You cannot see suffering on that scale without concluding we need to do everything possible to help the Afghan people rebuild their public health infrastructure," he said in an interview.
After his trip, Mr. Thompson worked with Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin L. Powell to promote a special women's health initiative, officials said.
You read something like that and you have to wonder if these protestors with their "No War for Oil" signs live in a different America than you do. Posted by Orrin Judd at January 27, 2003 10:40 PM
And Senator Patty Murray, who argues that everyone loves Osama because he does so much swell stuff and hates us because we don't
Posted by: Harry Tolen at January 27, 2003 9:53 PMOne might observe (one wonders whom one is referring to) that if it weren't for people accusing the US of only pursuing oil, etc., the US would have little incentive to do anything else.
Posted by: Charlie Murtaugh at January 28, 2003 10:28 AMOne uses "one" rather than "I" so as not to sound like as much of an egomaniac as one obviously is, or at least I do.
Posted by: oj at January 28, 2003 12:22 PMCharles, what did that mean?
Anyhow, you can tell me the incentive, but it was Amricans and Norwegians who eradicated guinea worm from most of the Koran Belt. And when the people Orrin asks about are faced with guinea worm, they simply refuse to acknowledge the event. (I have so far not encountered any leftist who even knew what guinea worm is until I told him).
They really do live in an alternate universe, in which Muslims are competent and compassionate, and Americans never do anything except for money.