By Jove I think I got it!

There I was listening to Andrea Mitchell on IMUS, fresh off a night of fruitless attempts to do more than dry hump her fossil (really the lack of broken hips in that entangling is a testament to modern vitamin supplements). Mitchell was proclaiming the polls showing Americans sympathetic to Bush giving us all less freedom (though they don't say that), when it dawned on me.

Since they hate us for our freedom, Bush making sure that we don't have as much freedom, means that they won't hate us as much.

It's really quite brilliant, in a cowardly and stupid way.