George Will is a great columnist, a great thinker, and is correct that Bush, on balance, has been a good president, but I'll still fret over every decision he makes (like CFR)... eternal vigilance, and all that.
Just so. Politics is the art of the possible, and I'd rather have Bush accomplishing as many important conservative goals as he realistically can than shooting off his mouth and getting nothing done, in the style of Pat Buchanan and Harry Browne. I also agree that probably his mistakes in the Middle East are self-correcting. But they have been extremely damaging, and have undone much of the good work of Afghanistan--that is, the lesson that our enemies will be swiftly punished, and that they will not achieve their goals through terrorism.
Bush shares with Reagan a valuable political gift: he is firm but he is soft-spoken. He is not loud-mouthed and abrasive like some conservative politicians, who could not possibly win national election simply because of the way they present themselves.