The progress report will be released publicly and will be one of the most significant political events of this half of the year. It'll be a bad look if he responds to it in a brief press conference halfway around the world.j_davo24 said:A little off topic, but doesn't the fact that Bush isn't going to be here for the majority of the meeting prove how muhc of a joke APEC actually is? I mean if the most important person at the meeting feels that its more important to go home for 'progress report' on the Iraq war then I hardly feel it's something worth protesting about.
What the hell does he need to be in Washington for a progress report for? I refuse to believe that the most powerful nation on earth doesn't have the ability for a secure teleconference whilst he is here in Sydney. Hell if they don't want to risk the security then couldn't it just wait a couple of days?
Whilst the theories behind APEC are great and it has had some success for Australia and it's Asian relations this just shows how seriously the more powerful nations take it. I get the feeling that its just an even more cost inflated version of those council junkets Today Tonight report on every second week...
qftCaptain Gh3y said:the cops, hopefully with dogs
EDIT: and batons
And the freeing up of barriers to trade and establishing a combined effort to the problems present in the Pacific region well into the future isn't as important? As I said before if they want APEC to be taken seriously the US has to treat it that way. You cannot possibly tell me this report couldn't wait 3 or 4 days?Triangulum said:The progress report will be released publicly and will be one of the most significant political events of this half of the year. It'll be a bad look if he responds to it in a brief press conference halfway around the world.
And you can go fuck yourself. The point of the post was that he's made up some bullshit excuse to not be there whilst the majority of business is taking place. Not that he's not coming at all. Theres a huge difference between attending and taking something seriously.politik said:Actually fuckstick, APEC is one of the few conferences that the President of the US actually attends.
*facepalms*Musk said:I dont kno if i should treat you serious or retarded
Yes, my statements were serious business and I was not taking the piss outta the organiser or anything. :]Musk said:Yes retarded, down syndrome style
My sarcasm-radar is starting to break.Musk said:When are you gonna realise that your protests do not do anything apart from the media portraying you lot as uneducated little monsters.
Your name wouldn't happen to start with a B would it? >=)Musk said:Its not a hax its the magic of an engineer