Sometimes the big American idea is lost in shrill noise.  The noisy reaction to President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize is an example. Bono is not only a clear voice but a careful reader. For support, he points to these 36 words in President Obama’s September 23 2009 speech to the United Nations General Assembly.

“We will support the Millennium Development Goals, and approach next year’s summit with a global plan to make them a reality. And we will set our sights on the eradication of extreme poverty in our time.”

The Bono op-ed is here, along with his call to action:

Because the world sees that America might just hold the keys to solving the three greatest threats we face on this planet: extreme poverty, extreme ideology and extreme climate change. The world senses that America, with renewed global support, might be better placed to defeat this axis of extremism with a new model of foreign policy.

This may be the biggest idea yet.

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