An interesting article in the weekly Standard by Kristol (never known as a big Bush fan) and Kagan, asks the question, “has Bush jumped off the anti-terrorism train?
Either this is more of a deep deception by the White House and, as Jonah Goldberg has pointed out, they have recognized that a “war on terrorism” is indeed too simplistic, and has declared war on the real enemy instead, but don’t want to tip their hand yet, or they really are out to sea in a policy sense. There’s insufficient evidence for me to tell which is the case.