The ONE Campaign, which Bono co-founded, is launching “Development: Mission Critical” and already has enlisted more than 50 combat veteransof Iraq and Afghanistan who “have seen the importance of development firsthand by serving on humanitarian missions,” to fight poverty according to a campaign release. Those projects erase ungoverned spaces where terrorism thrives.
Bono met secretly with Defense Sec. Robert Gates at the Pentagon in 2008 and talked Africa.
“As leading military leaders and security experts have argued, effective development not only can save millions of lives, but can also help strengthen our national security, prevent future strife and add to America’s global leadership,” the ONE Campaign says. Only two percent of civil wars occurred in the countries with the highest standards of living between 1997 and 2001, they note.
So Bono is expected to ask vets to join him in lobbying for a bigger U.S. foreign assistance budget.
Bono will announce this and more about the military’s role in humanitarian work at the Atlantic Council, a Washington think tank, on Wednesday. Bono will receive a humanitarian leadership award, while Adm. Mike Mullen will introduce the recipients of the Distinguished Military Leadership Awards, General Stéphane Abrial, supreme allied commander, transformation, and Gen. James Mattis, USMC, commander of U.S. Joint Forces Command.
Former President Bill Clinton and Dr. Josef Ackermann, of Deutsche Bank AG, also will be recognized.
But not all will cheer Bono's efforts to mix the military into humanitarian more, not less, than it already is.
For more on why some of the leading global aid groups want a firewall from military objectives, see: Mixing fighting and food in Afghanistan
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