Andrew Leonard finds more reasons to think the DDA’s stall will last quite a while:

Buried at the very end of a Wall Street Journal article on the possibility that the U.S. might lead a new effort to restart the stalled Doha trade talks comes a tidbit too revealing to pass up.

The administration’s fresh focus on Doha hasn’t necessarily won the same level of attention from its chief executive. Joining visiting South African President Mbeki in the Oval Office Friday, President Bush told reporters that the two talked about “the necessity of trade.”

“We talked about, interestingly enough, the Darfur round,” Mr. Bush said, apparently confusing the Qatar city with the Sudanese region beset by violence.

Sure, sure, anyone can make an honest mistake. Why pick on the poor man, who clearly has much more important things to worry about than getting the details right about trade and genocide. Doha, Darfur — it’s a lot to ask, keeping these strangely named foreign cities straight. But it’s impossible to resist the feeling that Bush just doesn’t give a damn.