NRO's Denis Boyle has a long history of calling like he sees it, damn anyone who objects. This week he examines what you did not see, when the cameras were off as Bush traveled through Europe. The whole article is here for free, but here is Mr. Boyle's take on the meeting with Russia's Putin:
The only way for Bush to salvage the whole adventure was to go to Slovakia, where, before generally happy crowds, he blindsided Russia's Putin, who thought he was showing up to talk about terrorism, but ended up getting a justifiable upbraiding about his country's threatened relapse into totalitarianism. The big take-away: Putin agreed that Iran and North Korea shouldn't have nukes, something he agreed to long ago, but never mind. Russia wasn't about to stop trading with Iran any more than (as Ian Black in the Guardian reports) the EU is going to reconsider its plan to sell weapons to the Chinese — who, of course, sell weapons to Iran, too. As this piece (.pdf alert!) in Parliament Magazine by MEP Daniel Cohn-Bendit shows, nothing Bush could have said or done would have made a bit of difference, so he might as well have done some of his famous straight-talking.
Sleep tight America.
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