From Sydney comes the harsh reality: COST of HOSTING...World Leaders! Okay, more like World Leaders (whenever President George Bush is present)!! The Aussies are spending tons in cash, building unprecedented fences and other barriers, and deploying everything in their admirable security arsenal...for the APEC Summit, this week. Both Bush and his Iraq war are very unpopular in Australia (as where aren't they?).
It was always there: these protests started before Bush. All IMF and World Bank Meetings have been picketed in sorts. Will always be!! The G8 will not escape, either.
If the leaders ignore major issues or under-perform when needed most, they will keep getting booed, resented and harangued...wherever they assemble on the face of the Earth. The heat, like the Global Warming problem they're deflecting, will be on them! No hiding.
I was just wondering if the Americans are factoring this depressing phenomenon into the future of their worldview and global relations. America cannot go on like this!
We don't know how Mr Bush wants to be remembered. But the world seems dead set to rebuke him everywhere and anywhere! How is Secretary Rice coping with this quagmire?
No matter the cost, may World Leaders meet. May they, because of the cost however, make good things happen...from all them MEETINGS!
Pleeeeeze...
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