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Last night Colbert suggests, "There is a real danger that this triumph of diplomacy could make people think diplomacy can triumph."
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Last night Colbert suggests, "There is a real danger that this triumph of diplomacy could make people think diplomacy can triumph."
Posted by Matthew Cordell at 11:31 AM
September 25, 2008
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The following appeared as an op-ed in The Guardian Online on Thursday, September 25th.
This week, over 150 world leaders are gathered at the UN for the opening of the general assembly. If recent years are any indication, news outlets will focus on the disagreements aired on Tuesday, when George Bush and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took the podium.
But the real drama occurs today (Thursday), when the same global leaders that butted heads earlier in the week take stock of one of the most far-reaching and noble statements of international cooperation ever agreed upon, the millennium development goals.

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