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.

ECONOMIST: The government��s foreign missteps are multiplying

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.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy