by David Sassoon -
Dec 15th, 2007 
The headlines from Bali are reporting that agreement for a road map for future progress on climate action has been reached. What is not being reported is how the assembled nations of the world confronted the isolated Bush delegation and humbled it into agreement.
Then occurred one of the most remarkable sounds that has perhaps ever been heard in the annals of international diplomacy--like a collective global groan--descending then to a murmur, then increasing in volume to a full-throated expression of rage and anger and booing and jeering, lasting for a full minute, so that finally the Minister had to call the meeting back to order.
That description is from the following eye-witness account of the last, emotional plenary session where exhausted delegates hammered out the final language of the Bali road map.
This account sent chills up my spine and when I got to the end, put a lump in my throat. It provides a glimpse through a window that is rarely opened for the US public. Here are extended excerpts from this e-mail written by Peter Riggs, Director of the Forum on Democracy and Trade.
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