Do 'other US foreign policy interests' STILL outweigh fighting terrorism?

Question

'The charities were part of an extraordinary $70 billion Saudi campaign to spread their fundamentalist Wahhabi sect worldwide. The money helped lay the foundation for hundreds of radical mosques, schools, and Islamic centers that have acted as support networks for the jihad movement, officials say.

U.S. intelligence officials knew about Saudi Arabia's role in funding terrorism by 1996, yet for years Washington did almost nothing to stop it. Examining the Saudi role in terrorism, a senior intelligence analyst says, was "virtually taboo." Even after the embassy bombings in Africa, moves by counterterrorism officials to act against the Saudis were repeatedly rebuffed by senior staff at the State Department and elsewhere who felt that other foreign policy interests outweighed fighting terrorism.' (US News and World Report)

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/031215/15terror.htm

Answer 1

Fighting terrorism is like fighting crime -- it's an ongoing process that has existed since the dawn of civilization, and will continue to be an issue until we (as a species) have eliminated hated and fear and prejudice -- in other words, not any time soon.

We cannot put the rest of reality on hold to address only that one issue -- because those issues are going to be with us forever, or at least for the far foreseeable future.