The sea is choppy as a rusty freighter glides to the wharf of any one of many ports that dot our coastline. On the deck, the wind at their backs, Islamic extremists uncap vials of powered anthrax. A week later hundreds of thousands suffer horrible deaths. Or, instead of germs, a crude atomic bomb lies deep in the hold, hidden under tons of cargo. As I write the stock market is falling like a rock.
Airlines are on the verge of collapse as a terrified nation is afraid to fly.
Retirement funds evaporate as a lifetime of savings is caught in a web of terror. The tourist industry looks bleaker and bleaker as discretionary funds disappear one tick at a time and another worker is laid off. Here is my vision of tomorrow. I do not believe the Taliban will surrender bin Laden. Hide as he will, we will find him and relatively soon.