Blake Hounshell: 10 things President Bush has done right

I just realized that today, July 6, is the 61st birthday of U.S. President George W. Bush.

Passport is usually pretty critical of the Prez. So for a change of pace and out of respect for the man's special day, here are the top ten things Bush and his team have gotten right during his time in office. No wisecracks, I promise:

Boosting aid to Africa threefold
Preventing a nuclear war between India and Pakistan
Taking down the A.Q. Khan nuclear proliferation network
Getting Libya to give up its weapons of mass destruction programs and renounce terrorism
Turning independent-minded India into a strategic ally
After a rough start, sticking to a pragmatic China policy
Getting North Korea to shut down its nuclear reactor ... eventually
Decapitating some two thirds of al Qaeda's top leadership and not having a second 9/11
Giving immigration reform the old college try
Challenging his party over harmful agricultural subsidies while pushing free trade
And amid all this as well as the stress of his failures, he's stayed physically fit.