Response: The "summit" in Kennebunkport was a success! Let me explain what I mean by that term.

Bush and Putin have something that few world leaders have. They are both "straight shooters." They say what they think and they do not lie to each other. This is very important, especially for a person like Bush, who despised Chirac and Schroeder because he did not believe he could trust them. They both ... more

Response: In the past few months, tensions have rapidly accumulated between Russia and the West. Numerous inconvenient truths have become exceedingly difficult to ignore, leaving many policymakers staggering about without a coherent response. Europe and the United States were shocked by the callous response of the Russian authorities to the apparent contract killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. They lo... more

Response: When in his Victory Day speech on May 9 Vladimir Putin compared the United States to the Third Reich, he was setting a new standard in anti-Western rhetoric. Now any gathering which passes without similar comparisons will be regarded as a relative success, as was the case at the summit at the Bush family estate in Kennebunkport that has just ended.

This dialogue of the deaf on the issue of ant... more

Response: The country that gave the world Pushkin, Chekov, Tchaikovsky, and Tolstoy now gives itself and the world the rule of thugs and computer hackers. The last tsars permitted their people liberal reforms, a constitution, and real political parties. Russia’s present ruler and his entourage move in the opposite direction: They gut the reforms that took shape under Presidents Gorbachev and Yeltsin; neuter... more