Some question whether his appetite for politics, which in his youth bordered on monomania, ever returned after he led the Tories to a landslide loss in 2001.
The result of President Bush's monomania on chemical arms control is that the United States is about to become legally committed to a treaty that is neither "global" nor "verifiable, " the two claims typically made on its behalf.
The genesis of Mr. Bush's monomania about using arms control to eliminate chemical weapons has been documented in numerous Center for Security Policy papers, notably "Bush's Myopia on Chemical Weapons Keeps Him From Seeing the Handwriting on the Arms Control Wall, " (No. 91-P 37, 13 May 1991).