he isn't trying to solve the crisises...but raise the awareness...how many times do you see the evening news...only to see a 5 minute story about africa overshadowed by a 20 minute story about sports...its sick how diminished the issue is in the self centered american media. Making the ONE campaign a public issue was his goal and he did it, organizing Live 8 during the G8 conference and forcing politicians to debate it was his goal and he did it. Yes it does take 10 minutes out of a U2 concert. But what are you losing from it? You still love them in the end and you come out with a little more knowledge and a little more hope. It is going to take years more to find a cure to AIDS. But with the money to build clinics, with the initiatives to build wells and to provide food water and shelter, and with international aid orginizations finally bringing this information into our homes he has well accomplished more then what most celeberity "activists" do by bitching and attacking politicians telling them they do nothing, while the celeberity does nothing him/herself. Bono has said he doesn't want to be known for Africa, he wants to be known for his music, but Africa is a persistant topic on his mind (and realize without him ever having gone to Ethiopia in the 80's, the Joshua Tree might have been a vastly different album, and Live Aid probably would have never happened) Gone are the days of Bono's Irish revolution speeches, thats a problem that like Africa eventually, has come down and healed itself, partly to people taking sides, looking each other in the eye, and the thousands of innocent bodies between them. I for one am a 100% supporter of Bono's activist work, I believe in him and I believe the speeches, and when he talks i'm not one of the people who want him just to get to the song. The man is passionate, the man puts all his heart and his words forth, and during the song it makes you think, it makes you realize that theres alot more heart in people. We live in a cruel world, our news is dominated with war, violence, terror, red states, blue states, bickering, fighting, divided lines...why do people have a problem when a rock star, not a politician accomplishes more with a 5 minute song then what politicians accomplish in their entire careers?