Posted on 07/08/2008 4:37:12 AM PDT by Uncle Ralph
... G-8 meetings follow a familiar script year after year. They begin with leaders issuing lofty statements on a checklist of "global challenges." They continue with TV footage of riot police struggling with the global protester brigade. And they finish with news stories quoting unnamed diplomats sighing that American obstinacy has just lost the world its last chance for some great advance on some issue vital for humanity.
The good news is that this week's summit in Japan may be the one in which we finally awake from the G-8 version of "Groundhog Day." And when we do, we will find that the president has now succeeded in baking into the G-8 process a time-honored Texas principle. It's called "put up or shut up." ...
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
“On issue after issue, the president has pushed for global policies and reforms that are opening up new opportunities, bringing relief to the suffering, and introducing a measure of sanity to the debate on climate. Maybe one day we will all wake up to a world willing to give him some credit for it.”
A very good read. I, for one, will be yearning for the Bush days after he leaves office.
“they finish with news stories quoting unnamed diplomats sighing that American obstinacy has just lost the world its last chance for some great advance on some issue vital for humanity”
LOL! Too funny... If it was not for, “American obstinacy” the world would either be communist, or National Socialist. Compound that with Capitalism. If it was not for our Obstinacy then were would the oppressed in many countries be without our Aid.
The only “obstinacy” is the world trying to deny Capitalism, freedom, and God.
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