KAPLAN ON BUSH

“As for President Bush, my limited encounter with him indicates that from the beginning of his presidency he was intensely curious and concerned with the problems of the most seemingly-obscure countries. People may forget that months before September 11th he stood before thousands in Warsaw proclaiming the need to embrace into the West all the countries of Eastern Europe from, as he put it, the Baltics to the Black Sea.” This comment is from his first response to my first posting on his book, “Warrior Politics,” now being discussed on the Book Club page. More postings – from me and you – will follow this afternoon.