From time to time, the Chronicle editorialists produce truly entertaining work.
Today’s editorial on foreign-aid related to AIDS is a good example:
WHETHER it’s creating a nation of orphans in Botswana or widowing women across India, AIDS represents more than tragedy. By destabilizing societies and crippling economies, AIDS poses a threat to international security.
The Bush administration has acknowledged the urgency of the threat; one of President Bush’s most admirable policy decisions is his 2003 pledge of $15 billion over five years to fight AIDS worldwide. While Congress has approved that funding, however, the administration and lawmakers have bowed to ideologues who insist those dollars hinge on a written pledge condemning prostitution and promising not to promote it or its legalization.
This requirement might seem benign.
That would have been a good spot to end the editorial.
But our Chron editorialists would have none of that, using 300+ additional words to criticize an unobjectionable requirement for United States aid.
Surely Andrea Georgsson can come up with a better cause for Houston’s only major daily than this — maybe even another leftover crusade.
