Will western leaders and a section of the media ever learn?

Bush is one of the last western leaders to have seen active service.

But last month, with time running out, Western political leaders found new resolve.

It should mean that Western leaders think again, and hard, about their basic policy choice.

All we need now are Western leaders with the guts to act on what they already know.

The temptation for Western leaders will be to try to do that.

Western leaders cannot pretend their policy failure is a success.

Western leaders also seemed confused at times about what was really happening.

Why, indeed, unless Western leaders are simply playing a very cynical game?

It was the first conference to be attended by both Soviet and western leaders in five years.