Dubya’s Dubai travails are indeed a case of tables-turned on the terror-monger.  But, as Nicholas von Hoffman points out in "Free Trade Planet," The Nation (Feb. 27), there are bigger chickens coming home to roost:

From a business point of view, the hollering and carrying on boils down
to one kind of question: Are the dollars we pay foreigners for our
imports spendable or not?

That is, spendable on anything more tangible than T-bills.  This President doesn’t threaten to veto his Republican Congress unless somebody has explained the stakes to him as pretty dang high.