G-8: Not Just One Queasy Stomach Posted by Heather Hurlburt

This entire G-8 meeting, which was to have been an opening showcase for France's Sarkozy, a farewell love-in for Britain's Tony Blair, and a chance of global warming redemption of President Bush, is looking like a big bunch of nothin' to me.  Sure, that's often the case, but you'd have thought there were several leaders with the incentive to do more, our own included.

Here's the most positive spin I could find on the climate change language:  "wait and see."

The $60 billion commitment for Africa is $30 billion of previously-pledged US money and $30 billion of new pledges from European nations that are behind on their previous pledges... and NGOs which have up to now been supportive of the G-8 process are hopping mad.

I am exasperated," Irish rock star and anti-poverty campaigner Bono told Reuters. "I think it is deliberately the language of obfuscation. It is deliberately misleading."

Le Monde claimed that there was "agreement reached" on Darfur, but the language doesn't look like anything to get excited about to me:

We underline that there is no military solution to the conflict in Darfur and fully support the efforts of the special envoys of the UN and the AU [African Union] to restart negotiations with a view to reaching a political agreement.

Ditto Iran and North Korea, unless I missed something.

And on Kosovo's final status, the Russians gave nothing, no statement, nada, zip, zero.  (Trying to make an early mark, Sarkozy proposed that the sides have six months to work something out and, if they failed, the independence-with-lots-of-oversight proposals of UN mediator Martti Ahtisaari would go into effect.  Cute.  But nyet.)

No wonder W. stayed in his room this morning.

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