Brad Pitt draw attention to Africa's troubles

On ABC television interview, the actor Brad Pitt talk about a recent tour in Africa and declared he felt uncomfortable using his superstar status to draw attention to Africa's troubles in a high profile TV interview. Brad insisted the United States must take the lead in global efforts to help the continent.
Especially that more than 130 000 people have signed a petition by the One Campaign, backed by Pitt and U2 singer Bono, urging US President George W Bush to devote another one percent of the US budget to helping African fight poverty, aids and hunger.

I believe that we should be leading this planet, as the richest country in the world, as the superpower that we are, that we should be leading this fight, and we should be sending our president, Bush, on a wave of support to say, 'this is something we're going to take the reins on, and bring the rest of the industrialized countries with us'.
What we've got to understand now, this is not just a cause, this is an emergency.