Give the devil his due

This, from "The Reality-Based Community," a blog with undeniable progressive credentials:

I give primary credit to President George W. Bush for helping end the culture war about HIV/AIDS. After a decade of hand painted “Thank God for AIDS” signs, President Bush showed how true Christians react to human suffering by creating PEPFAR [the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief]. This remains the largest effort by any country in history to fight a single disease, and two of my Stanford colleagues recently calculated that it has already saved over a million lives. In one stroke, President Bush created humane policy and shattered the meme that there was something Christian about attacking people with AIDS.

Keith Humphreys

Bravo, W!