| Tuesday, December 17, 2002 |
02:18 - That's a new one on me...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,861272,00.html
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Hey-- did you know that South Africa is a mortal enemy of ours now? Or at least, they consider us to be an enemy. A bad enough one that they're willing to forgo the funding that would have paid for HIV/AIDS drugs, and instead spend it on submarines to use in the event of an attack by the US.
(Via CapLion.)
Manto Tshabalala-Msimang told the Guardian that budgetary priorities meant her department could not provide anti-retrovirals to the estimated 4.5m South Africans with HIV. "We don't have the money for that. Where would it come from?"
Asked if it could come from defence savings from leaving out the submarines which formed part of a £4bn arms deal, the minister said that South Africa needed to deter aggressors: "Look at what Bush is doing. He could invade."
President Bush is expected to visit South Africa in January although only as part of a diplomatic tour of several African countries.
9/11 may have come out of left field, but this is from somewhere up in the nosebleed seats, or maybe out in the parking lot. What mental illness is it that has afflicted the leaders of just about every nation on Earth lately? Why is it so difficult for them to understand what we fight against, when, and why?
How does one argue with people like this? Where does one even begin?
And when did the USA become a bigger menace to the world than AIDS?
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