Is This Trip Really Necessary?
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 04. 3.09
Anne Applebaum at Slate wonders why they bothered spending $75 million to get together.
Nothing that will be discussed at the summit, and nothing that will be discussed at any of the follow-up summits, could not also have been discussed on the telephone. Or by e-mail. Or on a Skype conference call. Indeed, one British writer suggests that "the world's leaders should have followed their usual platitudes about looking to the future and engaging the young by holding the whole thing on Facebook."
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