"Is he out of his mind?

"Does he have the faintest idea what he's talking about?"

So wondered Andrew Sullivan, formerly among George W. Bush's most voluble admirers, after the President's jarring Oval Office interview with Tim Russert last Sunday. The conservative columnist referred specifically to Mr. Bush's strange assertions about federal spending, but the same goggling unreality pervaded his other remarks.

His message, as always, was clear: "I'm a war president," he said. "I make decisions here in the Oval Office in foreign policy matters with war on my mind."

But what wasn't clear was exactly who - beyond Saddam Hussein, who's already been captured, and the amorphous class of evil-doers known as "terrorists" - he was leading the war against. For in the Bush administration, there is more than one front in the current war to be fought, more than one enemy to be vanquished, and more than one area beyond foreign policy to fight in.

Not to mention more than one victory parade to be had when all is said and done.

The real problem is that the "enemy combatants" in these other wars are unlikely to be terrorists, but people like you and me. And the other millions of people across this land and around the globe who find themselves innocent bystanders in a war they neither asked for nor agree with.