Breaking Down Walls

Sorry, Tim, but I had to...you created a Dubya tag, so I figured that since this was from a Hollywood-related blog, it's game for our blog.

At what is quickly becoming one of my favorite blogs, Daily Variety editor's Wilshire & Washington directed me to Vanity Fair's new Africa issue.

Here's what Ted Johnson had to say about the Dubya cover:

Perhaps the biggest surprise of the new Vanity Fair Africa issue,
guest edited by Bono, is that George Bush posed for two of 20 different covers. For years now, VF editor Graydon Carter has waged an anti-Bush crusade in the magazine, from investigative pieces to his own biting editor's letters.

It wasn't Carter's idea, but Bono's. As Carter writes, "During one of our meetings, his cell phone went off and he began talking to a "Carl" someone as he took the call outside my office. This Carl, I discovered, was Karl, as in Rove, and Bono was working to secure our good president for one of the covers. (Bono's choice, not mine, as you might imagine; he gives the commander in chief high marks on his Africa policies.)"

The magazine says, "We at Vanity Fair didn't think there could be a silver lining to the Bush administration, but perhaps it is, of all things, President George W. Bush's work for Africa."

What's great is that the Africa crisis is bringing people together and forcing them to realize that Westerners have to work together on this in order to stop death.

I'd go beyond what the editors of Vanity Fair say and suggest that making Africa a secure place to live may be the most important thing our generation can do...maybe even more important than containing Islamo-fascism. If so, even if the United States completely withdraws from Iraq in 2009, and a universal belief arises that the whole war was a mistake, Bush still may go down in history as one of the great Presidents for being the first to really address the Africa issue in a meaningful way and establishing a process for which we can give money to those who need it without having the funds go to fund those in power.

For all the crap Bush takes from liberals...much of it deserved...I'm glad he's finally getting some credit for the unqualified good he's been doing for Africa.