Bush Speaks

GUESS who’s coming to dinner? Well, not dinner, exactly, but the answer is George W. Bush. He’s giving an afternoon speech here in Sharm El Sheikh. We’re gathered for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in this part of the world. These are the Davos people: the people whose main event is held in January, high up in the Swiss Alps.

President Bush has never attended any Davos event: not in Switzerland, not in the Middle East, not anywhere else. Many of his surrogates have attended, including his secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice (who is in Sharm El Sheikh now). But Bush has decided to nod to Davos in this last year of his presidency. Sharm is his final event on a five-day Middle Eastern tour.

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Jay Nordlinger

Jay Nordlinger was a senior editor of National Review and a book fellow at National Review Institute.

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GUESS who’s coming to dinner? Well, not dinner, exactly, but the answer is George W. Bush. He’s giving an afternoon speech here in Sharm El Sheikh. We’re gathered for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in this part of the world. These are the Davos people: the people whose main event is held in January, high up in the Swiss Alps.

President Bush has never attended any Davos event: not in Switzerland, not in the Middle East, not anywhere else. Many of his surrogates have attended, including his secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice (who is in Sharm El Sheikh now). But Bush has decided to nod to Davos in this last year of his presidency. Sharm is his final event on a five-day Middle Eastern tour.