{"id":63,"date":"2005-12-02T12:07:24","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T17:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2005\/12\/02\/more-on-african-militaries-aids-a"},"modified":"2006-11-28T19:27:36","modified_gmt":"2006-11-29T00:27:36","slug":"more-on-african-militaries-aids-and-the-security-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2005\/12\/02\/more-on-african-militaries-aids-and-the-security-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"More on African militaries, AIDS, and the Security Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a128\"><\/a>  I posted a comment on <a href=\"http:\/\/americaabroad.tpmcafe.com\/story\/2005\/11\/30\/8483\/0075\">TPM Cafe<\/a> about the link between AIDS and U.S. National Security.  Here it is:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial\">The hollowing out of African militaries due to AIDS is a significant problem, and one that, as the author points out, bodes ill for peace-keeping operations as well as African solutions for African problems. What this means for American national security is another question. I think there may be a temptation to overstate what state failure and governance problems in Africa mean for the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>I fear that advocates who use national security language do so because they think the issue won&#8217;t get enough attention otherwise. The striking thing about HIV\/AIDS it seems to me is that moral concerns have been important drivers for this White House to do something significant about the disease. The question becomes, would they have done that much less if concerns about state failure and terrorism (and wanting to project a benign face of America) not been other important considerations? To put it bluntly, did it take 9\/11 to get PEPFAR?<span style=\"font-family: arial\"><\/p>\n<p>Given the mobilization of Christian conservatives on this issue, along with more liberal AIDS activists, I think this White House was prepared to do a lot already.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted a comment on TPM Cafe about the link between AIDS and U.S. National Security. Here it is: The hollowing out of African militaries due to AIDS is a significant problem, and one that, as the author points out, bodes ill for peace-keeping operations as well as African solutions for African problems. What this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1109,1107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-security","category-politics-and-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}