I know you gentlemen will hold my feet to the fire for this, but the school of the Marine has a novel, if not archaic means of dealing with PLO-mania; slash and burn!

I know, I know, we should demonstrate temperance and a civilized demeanor, but if Bush would just turn the Marines loose on those suffering bedouins the air would be clear in 24 hours!

Ofcourse we'de have every Arab on earth yapping at our heels poste haste, but that would be an excellent excuse to capture their oil fields and take over the oil cartel.

I suspect the rest of the world would temper their outrage if we lowered the price of light crude by $2 a barrel, eh?

Chalk it up to economic reality and the veiled contemp of most nations for the Arabs.