You were memorializing someone who's not even dead yet. How... Sunshiny.
Dead politically?
Are you insane?
Watch what happens when he *does* die (we all do, ya' know), then tell me he wasn't a factor in the stability/instability equation of the Middle East.
"Write about what you know, you can always write about what you don't know later." --Richard Brautigan, advice to an aspiring author
Leigh Meyers leighcmeyers at yahoo.com
----- Original Message ----- From: Yoshie Furuhashi To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org ; furuhashi.1 at osu.edu Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 4:40 PM Subject: [lbo-talk] Flash: Arafat Reported Clinically Dead (Reuters)
>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>I'm stating the facts as I see them. If you disagree, explain why.
>>In any case, Arafat has been politically dead for some time,
>>confined to his battered headquarters for more than two years. Did
>>you do anything to change that before he fell ill?
>
>I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Do you think you could
>have done a better job than Arafat? Is this another iteration of
>blaming failure of will rather than horrible circumstances?
If you are sorry for the horrible circumstances that confront the Palestinian people and killed Arafat politically long before he fell ill terminally, you have to do something to change them -- here, in the United States where we live, in Canada where Travis lives, in the European Union, etc. -- Yoshie
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