How to win friends and influence people

From Think Progress (via HuffPo, where the European commenters are understandably outraged):

Today, President Bush held a press conference in Vienna, Austria as part of a diplomatic visit to Europe. He was asked by a member of the press why approval for his policies, particularly on national security issues, was so low in Europe. Bush explained that Europeans didn’t take the 9/11 attacks seriously. “For Europe, September 11th was a moment. For us, it was a change of thinking.”
85 Europeans died in the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Bush added that “some people,” presumably Europeans who disagree with his policies, believe it’s “OK to condemn people to tyranny.”

I wonder if this is part of the new emphasis on diplomacy that Andrew Sullivan was talking about.
(On the other hand, perhaps “change of thinking” simply means “hysterical abandoning of our Constitution and values”, in which case Bush was quite truthful.)