I know it doesn’t look this way at first blush, but George W Bush must be the luckiest man alive. While it is true that liberals can’t stand him and increasingly even his own party is deserting him and his core base is highly alienated by his immigration stand, still his enemies are a blessing to him. He has few friends but really terrific enemies.

He took an immediate dislike to Yasser Arafat and thought he was a liar and had no potential as a partner in peace. He was right. He hated Saddam Hussein, who, after all, did try to assassinate his father. No question that Saddam was a very bad man and richly deserved his fate. Bush reasonably concludes that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a lunatic of such proportion that he is an embarrassment to lunatics everywhere.

And what could stop Bush’s fall faster than an Iranian president who want to build up their nuclear industry, lies about its programs, promises to use nukes only for energy (while sitting on one of the greatest know oil reserves on the planet) and is both a Holocaust denier and advocates for the destruction of the state of Israel? (But just for practice. We’re next on his list.)

Add to this already remarkable pantheon of nogoodniks, Chavez of Venezuela, another raging anti-Semite, and general pain in the side of decency. And now, the piece de resistance is good ole Danny Ortega, a former Marxist (he says) and current self-proclaimed churchman who aspires to bring Nicaragua back to the future as a partner is revolution with Chavez and Fidel.

Kim Jong-Il is one more guy who is easy to hate—another despot who spends on personal luxuries while his people eat grass, and who is also developing nuclear weapons.

I have to tell you that as a liberal I have never voted for W (or even contemplated it seriously) but I am very impressed by the quality of his enemies. You know, I might consider going more pro W if he would just move Putin and Musharraf into the enemies category.