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| Ban Ki-moon Upset |
| 2016-05-25 |
| h/t Instapundit Sixty-five heads of state and governments, along with thousands of aid workers, politicians, civil society members journalists and celebrities, descended on Istanbul this week for the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit. The U.N. sponsored the two-day summit hoping the high-level meetings could help jumpstart, or even fix, the world’s struggling aid system. But leaders from some of the world’s wealthiest countries were nowhere to be seen. Only one out of the "Group of Seven" member states, who together made up nearly half of the global GDP last year, attended. Angela Merkel was the only G-7 leader to show, most likely because she would like to avoid almost everything that's going on for her back at home. I wouldn't be surprised to find her at the grand opening of a petting zoo in Reykjavik next week. There is also the fact that holding a "humanitarian summit" in Turkey to address the Syrian refugee crisis is a bit like having a college cheerleader abstinence camp in Bill Clinton's hot tub. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #4 A pleasant way for the conference participants to feed money into the faltering Turkish economy. Was it held at the new presidential palace? Most of it sits empty most of the time -- it would be nice if the taxpayers got any return on their unwilling investment. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2016-05-25 17:04 |
| #3 He can Bang it up his Moon. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2016-05-25 16:07 |
| #2 Merkal |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2016-05-25 16:06 |
| #1 Only one out of the FIFY |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-05-25 16:00 |