Two things that the Bush Administration & its supporters are known to say:

1)  “Terrorism has nothing to do with our foreign policy, those people just hate our freedom”

2) “Argument over strategy emboldens the terrorists”

Well, one thing we do with our freedom is engage in debate on all sorts of issues.  If that emboldens them, you could say in a rather meaningless way that the “hate our freedom” charge is correct, but wouldn’t that also mean NOT debating it amounts to bowing to their demands?