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Originally Posted by Almighty Colin
So you blame the US government for the spread of AIDS?
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No - I'm accusing it (based on its historical record) of choosing not to do anything significant about it until several years after it was already recognized as a serious problem. It had the means, but the executive in place chose not to deal with the problem as rigorously as would have been had it not been biased by its moral perspective.
How this (deliberate delay in action) could NOT result in an exponentially larger population of infected americans (gay and straight) is diificult to rationalize.
To add some perspective:
In the past two years, the us government has spent about 300 BILLION dollars on a war they started based on deception and blatent lies.
On the other hand, the death toll from hiv/aids related infection is orders of magnitude higher than all those killed by 'the axis of evil' (and its avengers).
Dropping $70 million on a disease several years late in the game (as usual in american history - eg. WW2) does not quite cut it.
-Dino