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There is a clear difference in strategy between Bush (perhaps representing the Republicans in general) and the Democrats. The Dems seem to view terrorism as a problem that can be solve by working within the legal system: terrorism is seen as a criminal act, a legal problem. The Republicans, on the other hand, don't seem very concerned about violating certain laws (and the civil liberties of their constituents) if doing so will help prevent another attack. Personally, the thought of the NSA listening in on my phone conversations doesn't frighten me... especially when I think about the possibility that their spying could prevent another major terrorist attack on my homeland.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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