Saying Nice Things

2006 was a tough year for the President of the United States. Since it is so thoroughly fashionable to trash Mr. Bush, I thought I might point out at least one part of his presidency that I think America should be proud of. President Bush has done more for the African continent and the crises faced there than any president in memory.

Here's an article on some of what he's been working to accomplish when it comes to Africa.

It takes a certain kind of partisan bent to dismiss the work of the Bush administration on the Africa file as some kind of cold political calculation. The article mentions as an explanation for the policy importance the role of the American Evangelical lobby on bringing the issue to forefront. I can't handle the conversion of the gospel into political capital in any shape or form but since it has happened so thoroughly in the US, at least some good has come from it in the midst of the not so good.