Retribution will be swift, unless Bush doesn't mind looking weak. Then OPEC will put the squeeze on us, and we'll have no choice but to expedite our own drilling operations. US public sentiment will harden toward the Arab states, which will make it much easier to fulfill our commitment to Israel without fallout at home. Our "allies" in Europe will whine and sniff about how we should just let ourselves be massacred without exacting reprisal. Nothing will come of it, and everybody will know that they are just covering their backsides with OPEC.
I suspect that somebody in Arafat's own backyard is trying to displace him.
"Then OPEC will put the squeeze on us, and we'll have no choice but to expedite our own drilling operations. US public sentiment will harden toward the Arab states, which will make it much easier to fulfill our commitment to Israel without fallout at home. Our "allies" in Europe will whine and sniff about how we should just let ourselves be massacred without exacting reprisal"
F**K 'Em! parsifal.
A talking head on WGN just mentioned as a possible connection that an Afghani leader was assassinated yesterday.