Now, if the Bush administration’s logic in the war on terror is to bring the war front to the “terrorists”, in places like Afhganistan and Iraq, and specially Iraq, to avenge the death of about 2900 people in the World Trade Center in NYC, wouldn’t the same line of thought indicate that to avoid a global pandemic of avian flu, that in some estimates could kill as many as 150 million people worldwide, the problem should be tackled where it starts?
This administration feels entitled to spend as much as $520Billion by 2010 on a hare-brained war based on lies but cannot think out of box for something that could kill ten thousand fold as many people worldwide as almost any act of terrorism that can be cooked out by desperate, hare-brained religious fanatics…
Virologists tell West to divert flu shots to Asia – Health & Science – International Herald Tribune
NEW YORK To head off a global pandemic of avian flu, some virologists have proposed a novel front-line strategy: Poultry workers and farmers in Asia, they argue, should be given the same flu shots that Americans get.
The hypocrisy of international politics
Now, if the Bush administration’s logic in the war on terror is to bring the war front to the “terrorists”, in places like Afhganistan and Iraq, and specially Iraq, to avenge the death of about 2900 people in the World Trade Center in NYC, wouldn’t the same line of thought indicate that to avoid a global pandemic of avian flu, that in some estimates could kill as many as 150 million people worldwide, the problem should be tackled where it starts?
This administration feels entitled to spend as much as $520Billion by 2010 on a hare-brained war based on lies but cannot think out of box for something that could kill ten thousand fold as many people worldwide as almost any act of terrorism that can be cooked out by desperate, hare-brained religious fanatics…
Virologists tell West to divert flu shots to Asia – Health & Science – International Herald Tribune