As I listened to a story on NPR today of how the World Food Program was facing cut-backs from donor-nations in Sudan, I couldn't help but wonder at how misguided Bush's foreign policy is.

How many people could have recieved adequate food and housing, medical care, safe drinking water, schooling, vaccinations...for the price of one day of the US military build-up in the Persian Gulf? It boggles the mind to think of how many lives could have been spared hunger, disease, grinding poverty, illiteracy for the cost of the entire build-up to date.

How much better would the cause, not just of this nation, but of all humanity be served by humanitarian action? How much better would the world be served if Bush lived up to the Christian ideals he so loudly lays claim to? But his claims are nothing more than the braying of an ass...loud, noisy, and meaningless. He and his followers do nothing but drape themselves in the mantle of sanctimonious self-righteousness, and claim themselves as Gods Chosen.

Compassionate conservatism...apparently, Bush and his administration reserve compassion only for those who have no need of it.