Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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Bush also has one of the most liberal foreign policies in our lifetime. Imagine if Clinton made the proposal Bush did yesterday to end world poverty by abolishing all trade tariffs. Conservatives would be in an uproar. But it may be the first realistic proposal to end third-world poverty.
from AP:
Irish rocker Bob Geldof, who organized the Live Aid concerts and campaigns against poverty, said he was sitting in the General Assembly chamber with U.N. anti-poverty chief Jeffrey Sachs and they couldn't believe what they heard.

"I think he's really throwing down the gauntlet. It's a very bold move," Geldof said of Bush's trade tariff proposal, adding that he was impressed with the president's acknowledgment that terrorism "comes from despair and lack of hope."