Just as Katrina has seared American poverty into our moral consciousness, AIDS has seared Africa into our moral vision. Caring for the sick and dying in Africa now is morally right, as well as geopolitically prudent; if we don’t help, someone else will and that someone else may not be friendly to our interests. We need to embrace the challenge to dedicate a larger percentage of our GDP to foreign aid, while encouraging more international trade with developing countries. History will judge us not by what we say but what we do. Yes, this agenda will require a role for government that some conservatives find disquieting. But that is a discomfort worth confronting.
Well, he's confronting it now. I wonder if conservatives still find it disquieting. I do.
I find Santorum's excuse for big government in the name of compassion disquieting. Way to spoil a comment, huh.