I must confess a growing admiration for Bono, despite my general dislike of U2. His politics seem inconsequential in the activism he pursues (judging by his willingness to work side-by-side with conservatives like Jesse Helms). He gets that you don't burn a bridge because you might be on different sides of the political spectrum.

**My Daughter at the WWII Memorial

Bono may be liberal, but he is not an idiotarian.

I dislike activist entainers of all kinds and have watched Bono drain billions of tax dollars for Africa aids work which is pouring money down a dry hole........

In stating that, I have watched Bono and realized he was a very political man in getting things done no matter if it is Bush or Clinton in office. He is issue oriented and does not care who he deals with. That is always impressive.

In his remarks today, I am moved to aplogize to Bono .....knowing very well tomorrow he will no doubt be without logic expressing some leftist bilge........but I apologize as he does get this right at least in naming Islam a huge problem...........although he does not get that communism and nazism are what is driving Islam now.

The apology is considering him a worthless person on issues doing more harm than good.

For the facts, aids should not have one dime spent on it as the law of averages indicates that the disease will die out as people who stick things without marriage where they should be stuck spread disease into like minded people.....and in a 50 year period all the comrades are toast just like in the Soviet Union with only a few infected communists left to make the world nuclear miserable.

Islam will be the same issue unless it is bled now. I have maintained while others called Iraq a disaster that Bush 43 let Iraq under Rumsfeld become a killing zone luring terrorists to their deaths. Now though that Iraq is stablizing the terrorism will spread.....which means a new round of wars will be necessary to kill approximately 1 to 30 million angry Muslim males.
(This same scenario will be followed by the need by China to kill off by starting a war the 200 million angry males they have there as they aborted all the wives 20 years ago and are still aborting girls.)

This is what liberalism has gotten us........and perhaps Bono should return the apology to me as where was he in supporting the war effort? Now in his silence a new round of war will come in the necessary nuclear decapitation of the Persian regime.

This all could have handled with approximately 250,000 extremist Muslims slaughtered in Iraq over a decade period with the remaining 30 million deciding naps were much better as reforms took over........now though they will have to killed as they will foment revolution into a billion angry nuclear armed Muslims from Libya to Indonesia.

In all honesty from a tactical standpoint, as Japan and England would remain untouched, I could not be that concerned if these 3 billion Eurasians started blowing each other up........the problem is it will eventually pull the US in as those French/German/Italians always do.......writing sob letters for help and the relatives in the media demanding America must do something.

So welcome Bono, but get it completely correct mate as this is going to be a bloody decade until Jesus irons it out.

*HIC IACET ARTORIVS REX QVONDAM REXQVE FVTVRVS

Anthony DeCurtis is basically an English professor. That would explain his lack of knowledge on issues more important, like national security or diplomacy.

As for Bono, I loved U2's earlier stuff but have basically not listened to them since, oh, around 1996.

And I've always called him "Sonny".

I have been a fan of U2 for quite some time, and I must admit I have a lot of respect for Bono (this has caused my conservative friends to tease me relentlessly).  I, too, believe what he does comes from a sincere place, and he seems to put forth an effort to learn and understand what he is talking about.

Although he and I would definitely disagree on countless political issues, I have always thought highly of his ability to bridge the gap and work for what he thinks is the "common good."  I have said for years now that I will lose any respect for him the moment I hear him badmouthing conservatives or those that might disagree with him.  So far I haven't seen this happen, so he still has my respect.

It was refreshing to see that even with his idealistic vision for the world, Bono still recognizes the very real threats to that vision.  I wonder what it will take for the liberals with their heads in the sand to come to that same conclusion.

If the MSM covers this at all, it will be to paint the "do-gooder" Bono as some type of hate-mongering hypocrite.

Didn't I hear a while back that before one of Bono's charity concerts that he forbid BDS ranting by any of the entertainers during the concert?