Bono has repeatedly worked with people who many of the rest of us find distasteful, to say the least. Take Jesse Helms and Tony Blair for instance. Even his own bandmates have been less than happy about those relationships. But its easy for us to sit in our houses as fans and criticize the actions of others when they don't fit with our tastes or political beliefs. He's been willing to accept the flak that gets thrown his way because its for something he believes in. He's said himself that U2s music and his fame are the currency that he uses to make the world better, with the full knowledge and acceptance that a certain number of people will dislike it at some level or the other. He's seen parts of the world that most us are sheltered from, and he he knows that the good that can be done there is completely worth the crap he and the band might take. And I applaud him for that.