Meanwhile, in a galaxy..

February 19th, 2015 by Charles Cameron

[ by Charles Cameron — because mention of the Riyadh meeting caught me by surprise ]

I have seen far more media attention, mass and social, paid to the White House Countering Violent Extremism confab than I have to the coalition meeting in Riyadh:

Anti-IS coalition chalks out strategy in Riyadh http://t.co/oHPGAoYIgn pic.twitter.com/JTbXrs9fm5

— hipbonegamer (@hipbonegamer) February 19, 2015

In fact, I had to tweet that myself to get a suitable DoubleTweet to go with this one:

Full List of Arab & ME countries at #CVESummit in Washington. #Lebanon not present. #Qatar sent Ambassador. pic.twitter.com/LkTNhF8neN

— Joyce Karam (@Joyce_Karam) February 19, 2015

Is that because one is about Countering Violent Extremism and the other about Violently Countering Extremism?

Or is Riyadh just so very far away?

Which will history view as the more significant of the two?

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