I think its clear from this quote from an unnamed Bush Administration official, that the Bush people place a higher premium on one of the two and it ain't Fighting Terrorism.  After the Lieberman/Cheney quote yesterday I was trying to find the recent report about a bipartisan majority of American foreign policy experts who think we're losing the "War on Terror" and here it is... not pretty.  Remember that when you see the odd phenomenon of struggling Republican candidates around the country suddenly endorsing Joe Lieberman's independent run or Administration officials timing terror alerts to change the news cycle for partisan purposes.  Better yet, since the President's poll numbers dropped one more time and Republican candidates around the country don't want him around , I'm guessing you'll probably see more terror alerts and talk about terrorism in the next couple months because frankly the Republican Party doesn't have anything to run on and scaring people seemed to work the last two election cycles so why not bring it out again.