"I believe that if anybody came to my hometown of Phoenix, Arizona, and set off a bomb on a bus and killed 18 people and injured a hundred of them, my citizens would expect us to respond," McCain said. "You want to call that a cycle of violence, you can call it what you want. But these acts of terror, organizations funded by the Saudis, at least encouraged by PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, are inexcusable in their tactics and in their results are horrendous."