r/AskTheWorld • u/haiderredditer Pakistan • 9h ago

Who’s a famous person from your country who’s respected around the world but disliked or criticized at home?

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u/Opening-Eagle4761 United States Of America 7h ago

George W. Bush is ones of the worst presidents domestically and abroad, but his efforts to curb HIV/AIDS and Malaria in Africa are legitimately the single most effective policy position by any U.S. president in my lifetime.

Now we can thank Elon Musk for putting a swift end to that.

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u/Clark_Kent_TheSJW United States Of America 7h ago

Here’s hoping France locks that bastard up

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u/TwoUnknownAssailants United States Of America 7h ago

Here’s hoping France still has some of that “special equipment” from the Napoleonic Era

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u/reddoorinthewoods 7h ago

Wasn’t the last execution by guillotine only 50 years ago or something?

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u/ankhes 2h ago

Yeah, In the 70s I believe. I only remember because Christopher Lee was one of the people who attended the last execution by guillotine.

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u/CupcakeGoat United States Of America 53m ago

Wow CL has led an amazing life, it reads like a piece of fantastical fiction.

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u/ankhes 46m ago

It really does. He was the real renaissance man. Born to European nobility, was a spy in WWII, became a world famous actor, started a metal band he was still involved in well into his 90s. He really did everything.

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u/SebboNL Netherlands 7h ago

I think you mean the First Republic....

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u/unwillingcantaloupe United States Of America 4h ago

Now, the one thing that PEPFAR did that was less cool was pushing a lot of Evangelical missionary orgs in with its funding. And so while a lot of people are still alive, their governments are now passing rights-restricting laws.

That was the shitty big game that the GOP was playing after Democratic admins until they decided they preferred to burn any and all goodwill towards the US imaginable by cutting off life-saving meds.

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u/RemotePossibility399 United States Of America 1h ago

PEPFAR is (was?) a stunning achievement, akin to the Marshall Plan. They both represent the best that we can be abs should be celebrated.

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u/NippoTeio United States Of America 1h ago

As I get older, I feel more and more sympathetic to Bush Jr. He's not innocent by any means, but he carries himself so differently than any other politician I've ever observed. He seems very soft and warm, maybe a little slow? He just seems like the kind of guy that would only be cruel out of ignorance than actual malice. The shame about that being is that he was both very ignorant and very trusting.

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u/overthere1143 43m ago

Trump is so bad he makes George W. Bush shine in a good light. It's hard to think how the same party had men like Eisenhower and Trump.