Salt Lake Tribune · Oct 7, 2019
Nicholas Kristof: World leaders can again make miracles
In this Thursday, May 17, 2007 file photo, President Bush, right, and British Prime Minister Tony Blair take part in a joint press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, file)We need a little uplift, a reminder that although world leaders today from Washington to London to Beijing may be dishonest vandals, it doesn’t have to be that way.
Even flawed presidents and prime ministers can act in noble ways, and we saw that in the 2000s when George W. Bush, Tony Blair and others made a heroic effort to tackle AIDS and malaria and save children’s lives around the world.