THE TRUTH WE SEE

I've read a couple of different articles in which two of Bono's co-belligerents in the fight against global poverty - Thom York, lead singer of Radiohead and Jeffrey Sachs, one of the world's leading economists and the author of The End of Poverty - have criticized Bono for being too chummy with the likes of George Bush and Tony Blair, failing in their estimation to adequately speak truth to power. Perhaps there's some merit to their criticism, but Bono's statements before last week's National Prayer Breakfast in Washington D.C. certainly had more of a ring of the "prophetic" than most of the normally tame remarks made before such an amiable (superficial?) gathering. If you haven't read them already, you can find them here.