Sunday on CBS's Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer gave a commentary on the president's speech about the NSA and government surveillance, urging a less "emotional reaction" to these collection practices.

Harking back to the Bush administration, Schieffer said to never forget that soldiers were sent to war by President Bush over intelligence that was "simply wrong." Therefore, "embrace" the new data collection practices of the Obama administration.

Schieffer admits to the complexity of this issue, but says to not become overly emotional about it. Just think it through.

As I listened to the president's speech Friday, I kept thinking just how much the world has changed. George Bush won the presidency in 2000 after a campaign in which terrorism, and for that matter, foreign policy, got almost no attention. Yet the Bush presidency was defined by 9/11 and America's reaction to it. Thousands of Americans were sent in to harm's way because the intelligence on which decisions were made was simply wrong. We should not forget that. If warp speed advances in technology have given us the ability to do better, we should embrace that, not diminish it.

The president gave an excellent outline of the new challenges, but left the hard part for later; for one, deciding where the vast trove of data the government is now able to collect should be stored.

To me, a little delay is just as well. These questions are so complex, they must be based on more than emotional reaction to revelations suddenly thrust upon us. Let's take the time to think this through.