Bush’s International Work
Since 2001, the administration of George W. Bush has been opposed to multilateralism and to the functioning of the UN, as seen in the oil case against food, and the war in Iraq without Security Council approval.
In August 2005, he appointed John R. Bolton as new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations when he was a tireless critic.
However, after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in the southern United States and humanitarian assistance provided by many countries (including the poor), Bush alters his conduct during his speech to the UN at the 60th anniversary this organization. On 14 September 2005, it held in the General Assembly speech atypical compared to its traditional policy, covering the subjects of development aid and poverty. He announced his support for the establishment of an international partnership on avian influenza that would require nations to report to the World Health Organization (WHO). Affirming its commitment to the Millennium Development Goals, calls for the abolition of subsidies and tariff barriers on agricultural products. It welcomes the establishment of a “Democracy Fund”, which is the main instigator, consisting solely of democratic countries to which France has promised to join. In terms of humanitarian aid, President Bush has more than doubled U.S. development assistance, which has grown from about $ 10 billion in 2000 to around 23 billion dollars in 2006.
He announced in 2002 the Millennium Challenge Account and its corollary, the Company’s account millennium (Millennium Challenge Corporation or MCC) to be operational in 2004, the MCC has signed with 16 countries agreements on economic aid and poverty reduction on over $ 5.5 billion in January 2008.
He presented the 2003 President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief to fight against AIDS abroad (mostly in sub-Saharan Africa), whose initial budget of 15 billion dollars over five years was increased to 18.3 billion. In 2007, he proposed to increase the budget for the next five years to 30 billion.
The U.S. government intervenes in a third of state funding from the Global Fund to fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria through this program.
The prevention aspect of it is based primarily on abstinence and ultimately on preventing the practice of safe sex using condoms. This policy is considered by several associations fighting against HIV / AIDS as against wasteful and putting out high-risk populations such as sex.
During the earthquake of 26 December 2004 in Southeast Asia, a battle group and 16 500 U.S. soldiers are deployed in the largest military operation in humanitarian aid that has occurred so far.
The Bush administration has increased humanitarian and development aid to Africa: it rose from 1.4 billion in 2001 to over 4 billion in 2006. Various programs on different levels are under way including the President’s Initiative for the fight against malaria (President’s Malaria Initiative) launched on 30 June 2005 and has a fund of $ 1.2 billion for five years, PMI has the objective to reduce by 50% mortality due to malaria in 15 African countries in collaboration with other international programs and the Initiative for Education in Africa launched in 2002 and shall provide scholarships to 550 girls and 000 trained more than 920 000 teachers by 2010.
Works Cited:
Brit Hume, Mara Liasson, Jeff Birnbaum, Charles Krauthammer (July 9, 2004). “The All-Star Panel Discusses John Kerry’s Shifting Positions on Iraq War Spending”, Fox News Network (transcript).
Carlisle, John K (January 3, 2004). “George Soros’s Plan to Defeat George Bush”, Human Events.
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