that ole "Axis of Evil" stirring up again?
I am sure your questioning was rhetorical, because trying to make sense of things that are senseless indicates a pathology.
The Bush administration is simply a chicken-hawk school yard bully. He picked the fight he was sure he could win, won it, and now is finding it is not so easy to get it over with.
Meanwhile there are festering sores in other parts of the world that can't be addressed because we are over-extended in Iraq and have an administration that just doesn't have a clue on what to do.
In Bush we have a leader, because he knows how to lead, because he is a leader. We know because he tells us so.
Publius