Because we are so #%&$ing dependent on their oil. We need to develop alternative fuel sources and alternative sources of petroleum....and leave all the Arabs to their desert sands...and Allah.
Well, the toothpaste is out of the tube now.
One more brilliant idea by the cohorts of X-42.
"...Just how much Arafat himself had to do with the Achille Lauro hijacking is unclear. Abbas and Arafat reportedly held talks in Tunis two days before the ship was seized. According to Israeli intelligence reports and information relayed by Italian Defence Minister Giovanni Spadolini, "the terrorists were in contact, via the ship's radio telephone, with a PLF [Palestine Liberation Front] co-ordinator in Genoa. He, in turn, got in touch with the PLO headquarters in Tunis for final instructions." Arafat's relationship with Abbas, and the fact Abbas was a member of the PLO's Executive Committee from 1984 to 1991, led to the US decision to refuse Arafat a visa to enter the US to address the UN General Assembly in November 1988."
Sounds like he was connected like bin Laden to Mohammed Atta
Brit Hume and Carl Cameron have anonymous sources but this story actually names the former U.S. Intelligence officer (Walsh) who heard the tape where Arafat orders the murder of our diplomats.
Let's see how many members of the local anti-Israel Al-Qaeda club show up on this thread to defend their protege.