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Bill Clinton, Gates say U.S. help abroad improves image

World Mar. 11, 2010 - 05:50AM JST ( 9 )

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BadseyMar. 11, 2010 - 08:44AM JST

We must help these people by indebting them and colonization. Be our slave and we can help you.
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HonestDictatorMar. 11, 2010 - 09:40AM JST

Uhm ok Badsey, if you say so. Heaven forbid should a country actually try to show compassion in your eyes. The other option is to just leave them alone and let them live on in already miserable conditions eh? With all the earthquakes, tsunamis, mudslides, and all sorts of wonderful natural disasters should anyone help another country out in their time of need?

Just remember those who help others may need help themselves someday, and thankfully the US has a pretty decent track record when it comes to assistance when assistance is needed and may have a much better opportunity to ask for aid when aid is needed. Reminds me of the small african village that when they heard about 9/11 they wanted to help by sending cattle because its all they could do to assist those they thought were in need.
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OdogmaMar. 11, 2010 - 10:15AM JST

Bill Gates and his wife donate more to charity than entire nations do.

Reminds me of the small african village that when they heard about 9/11 they wanted to help by sending cattle because its all they could do to assist those they thought were in need.

That's an interesting point. And it reminds me of a kind of cost benefit analysis - if such study can be called that - done by an economist who concluded that 9-11's effect on the overall US economy would likely hurt more than Americans the very people Osama bin Laden claims he stood for - poor Sub Saharan Muslims and African victims of the 'legacy of colonialisation.' Americans are the most generous people in the world,per capita, but when you attack them they are going to concentrate on helping their own, with less to be donated to Africa...
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rajakumarMar. 11, 2010 - 06:38PM JST

US image going up or going down. Under bush administration was going down.

I will say it is going up again with Obama,Clinton and Gates.

More needs to done to take it ,to no limits.
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LIBERTASMar. 11, 2010 - 06:50PM JST

Well, just ask the folks in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Somalia for a 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th opinion about this. Amazing what delusions can happen from the ivory towers in the DC beltway, 350sq mi surrounded by reality!
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Taka313Mar. 11, 2010 - 09:58PM JST

Bill Clinton and Bill Gates said Wednesday that U.S. investments in fighting AIDS, malaria and other diseases in underdeveloped nations save lives and play a vital role in improving the U.S. image abroad

Do good things and people will appreciate it. Got it. Thanks Bills.

Taka
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TheQuestionMar. 12, 2010 - 12:03AM JST

I could care less about the U.S image abroad. Politics aside, I tend to believe that the military personnel and U.S civilians providing aid to the world do so because they want to, and not out of some long reaching gambit for global favor.

“A strong global public health system is not merely a favor we do for other countries,” said committee chairman John Kerry, a Democrat. “It is the right thing to do morally and strategically. And it protects our own citizens.”

Great way to bring domestic politics into a group dedicated to reducing suffering abroad. Subtle as a flying hammer in a glass factory.

And it reminds me of a kind of cost benefit analysis - if such study can be called that - done by an economist who concluded that 9-11's effect on the overall US economy would likely hurt more than Americans the very people Osama bin Laden claims he stood for - poor Sub Saharan Muslims and African victims of the 'legacy of colonialisation.' Americans are the most generous people in the world,per capita, but when you attack them they are going to concentrate on helping their own, with less to be donated to Africa...

I doubt most of OBL's followers have the mental faculties to support thinking that far into the future.
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adaydreamMar. 12, 2010 - 12:04AM JST

Since we've changed presidents we don't have the little Hitler running across the globe threatening everybody. Sure the aid we're giving helps our image, but not looking for a new place to start a war helps immensely.

Thanks Obama for being that new president.

Thanks Clinton and Gates for your efforts.

God Bless America. < :-)
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RomeoRamenIIMar. 12, 2010 - 01:36AM JST

Obama is asking for $8.5 billion in the State Department’s 2011 budget to expand the Global Health Initiative.

While Obama continues to talk the talk, Mr. Bush walked the walk with the anti-AIDS program he championed that delivered medicine to Africa's most stricken countries; reducing the total number of AID/HIV deaths in that part of the world by more than a million people from 2004 to 2007; up from 50,000 people before he got involved.

Mr. Bush, with help from Congress, allocated $15 billion to this cause. it remains the largest international health initiative devoted to one disease.

Thank you, Mr. Bush.