What Biden needs to do heading into the G-7 summit

The host of the Cornwall summit, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has provided leadership on the covid-19 crisis ranging from inspired to incoherent. On one hand, he intends to ask his fellow G-7 leaders to endorse the common goal of vaccinating the entire world by the end of 2022 — what he says would be “the single greatest feat in medical history” — to which one can only reply, “Huzzah!” But Johnson has not announced or endorsed a specific plan to meet this goal, nor estimated how much it might cost. Meanwhile, he is in the process of slashing U.K. foreign aid from 0.7 percent of national income to 0.5 percent — a cut equivalent to $5.6 billion, which would gut programs for girls’ education, health, clean water and humanitarian assistance. The United Kingdom is, in fact, the only G-7 country cutting foreign aid this year. To which one can only respond: “What the hell?”