George W. Bush's recent visits to Latvia and Estonia poses the question if history has repeated itself. Almost a century ago, Secretary of State William Jennings Bryant visited the area which now includes Serbia and Croatia. A reporter asked him how he liked his trip to the Balkans. He responded: "where are the Balkans?"
I can easily imagine Bush saying "where are the Baltics?" -- Jim Devine / "Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are." -- Bertolt Brecht
