Born, 2001 in Doha, Qatar.  Died, 2006.  
Cause of death: a thousand bureaucratic paper cuts.

The Doha "growth round" of World Trade Organization talks has officially collapsed, throwing the process back to square one.  If you listen to the US media, the impression of the failure is one of two competing interests: the United States and other highly developed nations wanted developing nations to lift tariffs on machinery, developing nations wanted the developed world to end import taxes on agricultural goods.  Neither side blinked in this game of economic chicken, and now the talks have crashed.

And of course, we were just doing it for the good of those poor folks.  

The collapse of global trade talks was bad news for Africa, condemning the world's poorest continent to an uncertain future of high tariffs and lagging competitiveness, officials and experts said on Monday.

From the US perspective, not having free trade equals a horrible fate.  Would it surprise you to learn that the people "doomed" to this fate think otherwise?