Here's one from the past. Originally posted on March 18, 2003.

The war is on. That was certain at the point where the United Nations approved resolution 1441, while at the same time our Vice President referred to the process as a sham. And we simultaneously started to prepare for the war to come.

It has been clear since then that the administration has always been willing to pay the price, no matter how many Iraqi children must die in the war. One wonders if anyone in the White House has given thought to the future consequences:
The fact is, the world now knows indisputably what it previously only suspected: they only exist at the sufferance of the United States. This will still be true after this warlike administration has been replaced by a more peaceable one. For the forseeable future, we will be forced to maintain a bellicose posture in order to defend our title of "King of the Hill". The "Operation Shock and Awe" that we applied in the Dresden firebombing, to demonstrate our power to the Soviet Union, only spurred the arms race. The sequel, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, spurred the nuclear arms race. This operation will accomplish the same. As a response to this beaing of the war drums, other countries will be scrambling (are now scrambling) to find a deterrent to our agression. Governments stricken with fear will not become our friends; they will do their best to avoid our wrath, while seeking that deterrent.

I suppose in the course of time it will become clear that this was not a single point failure caused by George W. Bush alone. It was forseeable if we had only noted how many people how often felt the need to remark on how strong and powerful and unique we were as "The Only Remaining Superpower". When that becomes the most notable observation of a nations character, supplanting earlier identification as, e.g., "The World's Leading Democracy", that super power was bound to be unleashed by somebody. It just happened that President Bush was the first one to be seduced by his apparent possession of power sufficient to control the world. He will find he is chasing a will'o'the'wisp.

Despite all the military might of the United States, President Bush still is powerless to determine the fate of nations.