“Spengler” of the Asia Times Online predicts that G.W.B. will win re-election, but unstoppable events as nations in the Middle East and Central Asia struggle for power will make him rue the day:

Bush opened Pandora’s box a year ago, and not even Kerry proposes to shut it. In this case Pandora’s box better resembles a nested set of Russian dolls. Open one, and a bevy of demons flies out, forcing you to open the next one, and so forth. Dubya will be the president who led the US into a world civilizational war, although it is more precise to say that civilizational war led the US into it. Many will be the night during his second term that Bush will wish he were still in Texas, and still drunk.