(Come on, that title is funny.) Bill Clinton has been named Special UN Envoy to Haiti. Two aspects of this strike me as representative of Bill Clinton's personality: 1. He truly seems to respect the importance of at least the idea of the UN (let's ignore his beliefs on the UN's execution/hesitation issues in Somalia and the Balkans for the sake of this point); and, 2. Clinton is headed to Haiti, not some posh country where he can relax and live in high-society style--Clinton genuinely loves being around real people.
It is nice that Carter works with Habitat for Humanity, but that organization only focuses on the under-served within the domestic population. To have a (popular!) former president dedicate his time to the plight of some of those who are worst-off in the world is a demonstration that society seems to be gradually coming to the conclusion that suffering abroad is as unacceptable as suffering here.
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I agree with your sentiment, and I like your pun.
ReplyDelete(Is it a pun? Or just a play on words?)