From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Good Lord....there is a saying in politics wrt events

http://www.slate.com/id/2165259/?nav=fix

"ABC News and the Washington Post are reporting that Deputy Secretary
of State Randall Tobias resigned April 27 after confirming to ABC News that
he's on Jeane Palfrey's little list. Palfrey is a D.C. madam under
prosecution who's been negotiating with lawyers for various prominent johns
over whether to release their names to the public. Tobias is administrator
of the state department's foreign aid programs.

Tobias' resignation was announced at 5 p.m. on a Friday, traditionally the
hour for releasing bad news, because reporters are busy making weekend
plans and readers, at in theory, pay less attention to news that comes out
on a Saturday. The strategy seems to have worked in this instance, because
neither ABC News nor the Post reported one highly relevant detail: Tobias
is the Bush administration's leading advocate of abstinence-only programs
abroad!"

"Well, the heart of our prevention programs is what's known as ABC:
abstinence, be faithful, and the correct and consistent use of condoms when
appropriate. This is not an American invention; this is something that
President [Yoweri] Museveni in Uganda figured out over time when he
recognized that there was an enormous problem in Uganda.

And it's also not "ABC: Take your pick." It's abstinence really
focused heavily on young people and getting them to understand that the
best way to keep from getting infected is to be abstinent and not engage in
sexual activity until they are old enough and mature enough and get into a
committed relationship, such as a marriage. B is being faithful within that
committed relationship. And A and B, those two things together clearly had
a huge impact in bringing the infection rates down in Uganda.

C recognizes the fact that there are individuals in high-risk circumstances
who either by choice or by coercion are going to find themselves unable to
follow A and B, and therefore they need to have access to condoms, and they
need to understand the correct and consistent use of condoms. I think more
and more of the experts, the people who really understand the prevention
requirements with HIV/AIDS, have come to endorse ABC in a very balanced way
as the appropriate prevention centerpiece."


So I take it he followed choice (C). Inquiring minds seek to ask given he
couldn't follow A or B then did he follow C.....

Adam

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