The "war on terror" needed to stop suicide attacks as being an illegitimate tactic under any circumstances. It is NOT merely a military tactic, as some have suggested: it is a poison to any process of civilization when it becomes so very commonplace.
You can pretty effectively stop non-suicide attacks against civilian targets. But if any person, any human being that can get on a bus, go into a restaurant, reach out and shake your hand if any such person can be a bomb: game, set, match.
All terrorism is NOT the same: this country allowed the bombing and burning of churches and clinics. This country (and the UN) allowed the Israel/Palestine conflict to fester. This country treated the Oklahoma bombing as a simple crime. That was foolish. Legal minds, government minds that recognized hate crimes as something different, should have recognized attacks against a population as another form of crime, to be treated differently.
We can still move in that direction. We'd best move smartly on that. "Smart" and "Bush" are so very very different, as in "how Bush can you be?"