The Washington delusion hasn't changed since Vietnam, and the same rhetoric continues to be spewed. Remove the regime, hold an election, declare victory and fly home to a ticker-tape parade. 'Merica.

No one does satire quite like the British. The Americans, bless them, do try, but their jokes often arrive like a brick through a window. Satire requires a raised eyebrow, not a flashing neon sign.

In the theatre of modern politics, we are always offered the same production: two main parties, two sets of costumes and two well-rehearsed scripts. The liberals and conservatives acting as though their ideologies were carved in marble somewhere near Sinai.