Everyone thinks that the death of Abu Nidal by the Iraqis is an unquestionably good thing. I don't think so. The reason why the Iraqis plugged him was for payback from something Yassir Arafat has done or for something he is going to do in the future. The Palestinian/Israeli cease fire is part of that. Arafat is planning something big and he needs the IDF off of his back. Luckily for him, the addled asses of appeasement in the Israeli Labor party are pressuring Sharon to play kissy face with the Palestinians, which will give Arafat time to do something really painful either to us or the Israelis to draw attention away from Iraq. Sharon should have given Arafat a 5.56mm enema after the Passover bombings when he had the chance. A real scumbag was killed, yes, but that does not mean we are safer as a result. Possibly, we are less safe.
Posted by John Bono at August 20, 2002 01:01 PM | TrackBack