Critique of Bush's Speech

Zbigniew Brzezinski writes an article in the Washington Post discussing Bush's comparison of Islamic Fascism to Communism as being weak and misleading. Brzezinski should know - he's the one who pitted the two against each other in Afghanistan.

He makes the most valid criticism of the neoconservative vision of American foreign policy...essentially, that we are making too much of Al Queda, and propping them up into more than they are and that suicide bombers are primarily motivated by US troop presense in the Middle East. This is in contrast to the neocons who think Islamo facists are empowered by perceived US weakness in the region, that we will cut and run because we fear bloodshed.

Ironically, they are both probably right. The terror masters are encouraged by the US leaving Beruit, not responding to the Cole, etc, but individual suicide bombers are probably most motivated by the humiliation of having foreign troops in their land.

I guess the question is, who is more important to stop. I think the terror masters...because it is them who can orchestrate the largest attacks.