ARTICLE: "Bush gets set for climate-change meetings apart from U.N.," by David Jackson, USA Today, 27 September 2007, p. 6A.

Bush holds his own counter-UN climate change confab with officials from 16 most developed nations, plus New Core India and China.

They will begin outlining a plan to develop goals that could be incorporated into the U.N.'s work, Rice said.

Let's be more blunt: the 16 biggest to include India and China?

That would be the U.N.'s logical agenda!

No surprise. That's why my A-to-Z rule set is predicated that when you get the top 20 or so economies together on some issue, that's a resource quorum.

When Bush goes it alone, he's being dumb, but when he does this, he's being smart and realistic.

Bit late, but give the man credit.