In an interview with NBC News, President Bush was challenged to respond to the suggestion that "many people say that [the war on terror] has not made the world safer, that it has created more radicals, that there are more people in this part of the world who want to attack the United States." Bush's response: "This is the beehive theory. You should have just let the beehive sit there and hope the bees don't come out of the hive." "Haven't you just smashed the bees' hive and let them spread?" NBC News' Richard Engel asked. "To suggest that bees would stay in their hive is naive," Bush replied. "They didn't stay in the hive when they came and killed 3,000 of our citizens."
