A centre-left politician twice defeats conservative opponents to become president, implements a Keynesian stimulus package and as the recovery takes hold warns of the scourges of inequality and stagnant wages.
Meanwhile, however, as the CIA recently argued, America is less and less threatened by long-range missiles and more and more by cruise or other short-range missiles, or even suitcase bombs.At present, Mr Bush seems to believe that America should look after itself and leave others to deal with the scourges that do not affect it directly.
Not even the 20th century has escaped such scourges: the worldwide flu of 1918-19 is thought to have caused 25m-40m deaths, far more than the first world war; and since 1980 AIDS has killed some 12m people, so far.In pre-industrial Europe, frequent food crises also served as periodic population checks.
But few have invested seriously in inventing new drugs for poor-country scourges.
You want to eat something a little bit tasty .Orwell was describing something that has become one of the world's neglected scourges: the bad diet of the poor.
IN A year when rich-country leaders have said so much about the need to help Africa, and to step up the fight against such scourges as AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, you might think an international body set up to do just that would be overflowing with donations.
Most of the new money went on fighting the scourges on the list: HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and maternal and infant mortality.The growth in health-care aid has now slowed to less than half the rate of the early 2000s.
"What's inside that film is exactly what we as a party need to be discussing," he later complained.Four years later Mr Cruddas is still insisting the party grapple with the scourges of alienation and powerlessness.
On August 30th, after years of negotiations, a deal was finally agreed to allow poor countries to import cheaper generic drugs in emergencies to fight scourges such as AIDS.
These days, water-borne, hygiene- and sanitation-related diseases are one of the main scourges in Walumbe, including diarrhea, malaria, scabies, trachoma and bilharzia (the latter may even be linked to the high rate of HIV/AIDS here, say scientists).
But most wars also envenom entire regions and exacerbate international scourges such as crime and terrorism.In this section To protect sovereignty, or to protect lives?
