What will be President George W. Bush’s legacy? Will his legacy be the protection of the United States after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, which awoke the sleeping national security agencies? On the reverse side of that issue, will his legacy be wars in Afghanistan and Iraq aimed at stopping terrorist footholds? Will Mr. Bush’s legacy center around the Patriot Act and what some have questioned as an outright assault on the United States Constitution’s Bill of Rights? Will his legacy include the holding of alleged terrorists and alleged enemy combatants without charges, trial or hearings in secret prisons in foreign nations and at Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba? Will Mr. Bush’s Supreme Court appointments be his legacy? His appointments certainly took the court farther to the right than it was, which at the time seemed to be the direction the nation was going until the most recent congressional and presidential election. Will the failing economy be what Mr.