Now Yalta On The Fly
As a black belt in judo, Putin knows this rule of combat–and politics: you are most vulnerable when you think you’ve got everything under control. On many fronts–from Kabul to Congress, from global trade talks to Florida recounts–Bush has added luster to the leaderly standing he acquired after September 11. Hollywood would veto some of the script as implausibly perfect. In the midst of dinner with Putin at the Texas ranch, Bush got word that American aid workers, former students at a nearby college, had been freed in Afghanistan....