In This Story, George W. Bush Is the Hero

NYT OPINION: In This Story, George W. Bush Is the Hero
By Adam B. Ellick, Jonah M. Kessel and Nicholas Kristof
Section: Opinion
Source: New York Times
Published Date: March 21, 2023 at 02:00AM

Twenty years ago, Bush did something amazing. Hint: It wasn’t the Iraq war.

When President George W. Bush invaded Iraq 20 years ago this week, I was in the middle of the smoke and chaos of that cataclysmic war that became his best-known legacy. I wrote countless columns opposing an invasion, then I was scathing as I covered the war, and I still see it as a practical and moral catastrophe.

But wait — what if there’s something Bush did that was even more consequential than the invasion of Iraq? And what if it was something astonishingly good?

This is awkward, but I have to acknowledge that Bush deserves credit for the single best policy of any president in my lifetime. It’s called PEPFAR and if you haven’t heard of it, that’s part of the problem.

Read more at: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/21/opinion/george-bush-iraq-pepfar.html