Instead of cringing in the corner as you suggest, Bush is taking the fight into the terrorists' own lands. The idea, which seems to have escaped you, is that we want to make them more concerned about their own skin in their own countries than about attacking us here in the USA. Where do you think that Al Qaeda would get that "vial of toxin", anyway?
The terrorists' only hope is for useless idiots here in the USA to stop our offensive war against them. They rely on people here to libel and slander our military in an attempt to weaken our will. They rely on people here to fall for propaganda like our military only managed to kill "civilians" in a battle involving AK-47s and RPGs. They rely on people here to apologize for their attacks on our military.
Just to make things perfectly clear: when I write "our military" I mean the United States Armed Forces. I have no idea who you're referring to when you write "our military".