I heard this reported on NPR and was absolutely delighted. To my knowledge, this is the first time a U.S. President has EVER acknowledged that the decisions taken at Yalta were immoral and wrong.
This is a huge piece of honesty from President Bush. I imagine it was partly based on his personal convictions, partly related to the Bush doctrine of spreading freedom rather than playing ball with useful tyrants, and partly in reaction to the many provocative things Putin has said and done over the past few months.
The reporters on NPR sounded as if they could hardly get thewords out of their mouths, they tasted so bad, but they didn't dare criticize Bush for saying what he said. It is indeed obvious, although I believe Bush is the first President to say it, and say it clearly.
This was from Reuters. I want to see how the Times writes its own story about Bush's appreciation of the Yalta Conference and its aftermath. They might attribute to FDR's ill health and death two months later. I doubt that they'll mention his administration was infiltrated with commies.
It is a consistent theme that the President has evolved, the self-defeating nature of our attempts to maintain "stability" at the expense of freedom. It is truly an upending of seventy years of State Department crapola. The media flunkies, I'm sure, have no clue as to what is really hitting them. They will whine about hurting Pootie-Poot's feelings, but this is so much more far-sighted and transformative than they can even grasp.
It appears that the real Bush Doctrine has crystallized into a truly revolutionary doctrine.