On the other hand, people who respond with immediate terror or who become "emotionally unglued" after the event are much more likely to continue having difficulties as the months and years roll on.
This can scarcely come as a surprise since, as the right-hand man of Yasser Arafat for decades, he is not exactly a new leader "not compromised by terror" - whose election Mr. Bush made, nearly three years ago, a precondition for U.S. recognition of a Palestinian state.