Foresight is a Rarity

We're at war with crazed ideologues who leap at any sign of the West's cultural weakness, Mrs. Laura Bush visits Jeddah, is presented with an hijab, and with all the sense of a cod in a fish trap puts the thing on in front of cameras.

This by a woman who has no doubt been warned six ways to Sunday by her press secretary never to appear in an apron for fear of being thought "submissive."

No wonder I get these migraines.