NYT:Clark Proposes $30 Billion Plan to fighting AIDS and other diseases

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/01/politics/campaigns/01CLAR.html?ex=1070859600&en=c0adedcac96abbc4&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

Clark Proposes $30 Billion Plan
By EDWARD WYATT

Published: December 1, 2003

Wesley K. Clark on Monday will propose doubling to $30 billion the United States' financial commitment to fighting AIDS and other diseases in the developing world.
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Unlike the president's plan, which directs most financing through agencies controlled in part by the United States, General Clark's proposal would provide "a large majority" of the money to international organizations like the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization.
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The AIDS proposal is part of a series of foreign policy initiatives General Clark has outlined under a plan he calls "preventive engagement." The strategy centers on his belief that America is not just the world's "greatest military force, but also its greatest force for good," according to a draft of the address, which was provided by a member of the Clark campaign staff.
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More than half of the 40 million people estimated to be H.I.V. positive or to have AIDS live in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the 2003 AIDS Epidemic Update, released in November by the Joint United Nations Program on H.I.V./AIDS and the World Health Organization.

On the international front, Dean promised to:

Restore our role as a leader in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Renew the fight against Global AIDS, by providing $30 billion in the fight against AIDS by 2008 to help the Global Fund meet its resource requirements and to fund US bilateral global HIV/AIDS programs, as well as offer debt relief to nations fighting the AIDS pandemic to allow for much needed health investments.

Improve the vital healthcare infrastructure of the world's developing countries.

Assist orphans and children cast adrift by the AIDS pandemic.
"As a physician, I understand disease, the need for medical and public health investments, and the role that untreated disease can play in devastating individuals, families, communities, and whole societies. I know the critical importance of prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment. As President, I will not stand silent while this disease continues to claim victims," Governor Dean said.

On November 17, 2003, Governor Dean signed the Presidential Pledge To Action on Global AIDS, sponsored by the Global AIDS Alliance.

Dean's got a good plan too. But if you don't mind, I was posting the story on Clark's plan. Did you have a comment to make on Clark's plan?
(Frenchie thinks outloud...You remind me of when I'm about to get my picture taken, and my ugly cousin comes and knocks me out of the way just as the camera flashes....Sheech.....have a little bit more confidence, why don't you?)

Come on: Dean's not a bad guy for a corporate-friendly moderate.

But - Dean as guitar-totin' rebel? Do you really buy that kind of iconography? Do you think that aging upper class white guys bathed in colored lights holding guitars are...cool?

Does the phrase cool as an 8-track tape have any kind of resonance for you?

:shrug:

There aren't that many of them, but every vote counts. Besides, gays in the media may take more of an interest in him now. Can't hurt.

Will I get banned for this?

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and follow the yellow greed road.....

If there is one thing that can be learned on DU it is the perception of desperation Dean's supporters exude. If you mention any candidate they rage about their guy.

I can tell you what is not 'cool' to those that think cool politically important: An election between 2 draft dodgers when hundreds of thousand of young Americans are deployed in shit holes like Afghanistan and Iraq.

Lets run X-ray Dean. I am sure as a young combat fatigued kid hunkered down in Middle Eastern sand would love to have a guy that opted for the Slopes of Stowe over Viet Nam as his commander in chief. Why not he is running against a guy that runs well...from Viet Nam himself, from 9/11 via Nebraska and middle eastern sands via 2 1/2 hour one night stands behind endless security. This because things are going well in Iraq.

Dean with a guitar is like Bush with a golf club, a pandering whoring photo image of a guy that wants to be cool.

I would take Dean over Bush any day..but I can think of a few folks I would rather see in charge of this nation at this time than X-Ray.

Well, I just about have--on electoral politics, that is. I don't like any of the candidates, with the possible exception of Kucinich, and he doesn't have a prayer.

Many conservative-not-insane are joining with liberal internationalist over the issue of soft power. Clark, since he began work on a new US foreign policy (8 years ago) understands the importance of pre-emptive nation building. In "Waging Modern War" he calls for dollar for dollar spending with "hard power" military. That Clark understood that the military was the lesser of our powers was one of the things that drew me too him. He really does see the whole picture.

I like that he is proposing putting the money in non-US agencies, and also that he will sell it as a national security issue.

I wish I could see this speech, but I suppose Larry's hour with Linda Tripp tonight is far more important.