From the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Information Programs this year:

Interviewed on NBC’s Meet the Press via video link from Dublin, Ireland, Bono had high praise for President Bush: "I think he's done an incredible job, his administration, on AIDS. And 250,000 Africans are on anti-viral drugs. They literally owe their lives to America. In one year that's been done."

On one hand, we are presented with the "radical", "progressive", "liberal" Bono whose heart bleeds for the suffering Blacks and who has a bagful of solutions to save the natives, if only he could write legislation and executive orders for a day.

On the other hand, we see coming into view the arch-calculating, bottom-line businessman, in Secretary O'Neill, who has come to model, again, for the benefit of the natives, the "tough love" that they have been lacking and the standards of right and wrong, the accountability, yes, the holy and pristine "rule of law" that Africa longs for and has been deprived of, not by colonialism or apartheid for the last few centuries, but, of course, by corrupt African despots and dictators in power the last few decades.