The House that Bush Built

If you weren’t paying close attention during the president’s final State of the Union speech — and perhaps even if you were — you probably missed the shout out to one of the great foreign policy success of George W. Bush. In a speech that was otherwise criticized for its sunny characterization of perilous times, it was a welcome if brief indication that, from the beginning of his first term, Barack Obama embraced what was then and still is widely viewed as George Bush’s most enduring legacy — the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the subsequent President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI). Here, the progress is real and the president’s optimism appropriate.

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