The Bush Administration's priorities are on full display with the Ports scandal:

Do the terrorists win when we attack the wrong country enraging Arab opinion?  No.

Do the terrorists win when we hold prisoners in an area where our own laws do not reach?  No.

Do the terrorists win when we circumvent our own laws in order to conduct illegal spying on Americans?  No.

Do the terrorists win when we torture our prisoners?  No.

Do the terrorists win when we illegally seize suspects in other countries, hold them in former gulags and then send them off to other nations to be tortured?  No.

Do the terrorists win when people complain about a sweetheart deal to run the ports of the U.S., given to a company owned by a country which has ties to bin Laden, which does not recognize the state of Israel, and whose record on stopping smuggling and terrorist operations in their own port is terrible?  Apparently, yes:

Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England told the Senate Armed Services Committee that blocking the deal could ostracize one of the United States' few Arab allies. "The terrorists want our nation to become distrustful," England said. "They want us to become paranoid and isolationist, and my view is we cannot allow this to happen. It needs to be just the opposite."

After everything this Administration has done to make the American people be scared to death of terrorism from the Middle East, the statement is laughable.