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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: AmericanVoter who wrote (98452)5/18/2003 6:00:15 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 

why is our compassion so selective? In 2001 the World Health Organization — the same organization we now count on to protect us from SARS — called for a program to fight infectious diseases in poor countries, arguing that it would save the lives of millions of people every year. The U.S. share of the expenses would have been about $10 billion per year — a small fraction of what we will spend on war and occupation. Yet the Bush administration contemptuously dismissed the proposal.

That's only one example of selective compassion. Remember the furor when several developing countries facing massive AIDS infections violated patent rules and manufactured drugs themselves? Then recall what happened when we were threatened by anthrax: the administration immediately began discussing the possibility of overriding the patent on Ciprofloxacin.

Of course it's different when our people are the ones facing disease....
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