Bush left weak after defeat on Dubai

after nurturing fear and profiting from it, it comes back to haunt him at last.

But in these cases
We still have judgement here, that we but teach
Bloody instructions which, being taught, return
To plague th’inventor. This even-handed justice
Commends th’ingredience of our poison'd chalice
To our own lips.
—Macbeth, Act I, Scene 7

poetic justice.