"Lonestar, now you see that evil shall always triumph, because good is dumb," said Lord Dark Helmet in the 1987 lampoon Spaceballs. No Western leader has tried harder to be good, but looked dumber, than America's Lonestar, President George W Bush, over whom evil is about to triumph. His vision is crumbling of a democratic Middle East, with suburban housing tracts and shopping malls spreading across the desert, and mosques that preach something like Methodism. "Many will be the night during his second term that Bush will wish he were still in Texas, and still drunk," I predicted before his...
