From WNYK.

From WNYC in New York, this is NPR's On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone. Europe, Russia, and the rest of the world have now had some time

to react to last week's NATO summit in Prague, where the Alliance welcomed seven new members.

Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia were invited to join the Alliance in two years.

Martin Walker is chief international correspondent for UPI.

He's been tracking reactions to the Bush appearance at the summit, and he joins us now with the report, Martin.

After a long last, welcome back to the show.

Nice to be back on the air with you, Brooke.

So what do you think? Bush won what he wanted at NATO, right? Well, certainly that's what

the conservative European newspapers are saying. The Times of Britain and the Telegraph of Britain

were both talking about Bush's diplomatic triumph. Simia of Slovakia wrote an editorial,

in which they said that we find that once again,

when the United States takes a firm position and sets a firm lead,

the rest of the Allies will follow along.

And although the liberal European newspapers seem to agree that this was a diplomatic success for President Bush, many of them said a success but.

For example, the Guardian of Britain said in the editorial, by enlisting in the Pentagon's Foreign Legion,

European NATO allies will now march to Washington's latest

political tune. By imposing streamlined U.S. command, there'll be no repeat of the Kosovo war by

committee. By defining required capability and burden sharing, Europe will both pay more and

increasingly be locked into acquiring U.S. made material and weapon systems. By co-opting NATO coalitions

of the willing accusations of American imperialism will, in theory, be harder to sustain. But a green

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