Is George Bush the new Bob Geldof?
To hear him talk, you’d be forgiven for thinking that George Bush is the new Bob Geldof. His dedication to using the agricultural abundance and technical know-how of the United States and its corporations to feed the starving seems unbounded. In his 2003 State of the Union address, he announced: “Across the earth, America is feeding the hungry. More than 60 per cent of international food aid comes as a gift from the people of the United States.” Perhaps it’s only a matter of time before the president joins Phil Collins and Midge Ure on stage for a rerun of Live Aid. Recently Bush launched a furious attack at the cheese-eating surrender monkeys in Europe holding him back from waging the war closest to his heart – the war against hunger. And we’re not talking about every US citizen’s right to a bellyful of freedom fries. In a speech on 21 May, he accused Europe of undercutting efforts to feed starving Africans by blocking genetically modified crops because of “unfounded, unscientific fea
