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By now we’ve all seen this line from Bush’s big Vietnam speech:

In 1972, one antiwar senator put it this way: “What earthly difference does it make to nomadic tribes or uneducated subsistence farmers in Vietnam or Cambodia or Laos, whether they have a military dictator, a royal prince or a socialist commissar in some distant capital that they’ve never seen and may never heard of?”

But let’s now add to that:

Wheat & Weeds - Dial M For Malaria

But get a load of these people (these are all quotations from the article):

• In the 1960s, the World Health Organization (WHO) believed that the only alternative to the overpopulation problem was to assure that 40 percent of the children in poor nations would die of malaria. An official of the Agency for International Development even stated, “Rather dead than alive and riotously reproducing.”

• Alexander King, co-founder of the Club of Rome said, “In Guyana … it had almost eliminated malaria, but at the same time, the birthrate had doubled. So my chief quarrel with DDT in hindsight is that it greatly added to the population problem.”

• Jeff Hoffman, environmental attorney (grist.org) wrote, “Malaria was actually a natural population control, and DDT has actually caused a massive population explosion in some places where it has eradicated malaria.”

Western leftists: striving for a better world by killing everyone else but themselves.

Btw, malaria in China was wiped out thanks to the efforts of a Scottish doctor and professor of Tropical Medicine, Sir Patrick Manson, who first demonstrated that the mosquito was the agent of the spread of the disease and founded the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese (which educated Sun Yat-sen early on). A hundred and fifty years later and China has over a billion people, a one-child policy, and who knows what untold cruelty to their aging population and female infanticide. So, it’s obvious we can learn this lesson: Better to have let them die of malaria.