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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: c.hinton who wrote (241380)9/8/2007 5:24:42 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
The point is that those deemed gangsters and terrorists do go on to become statesmen......

There is no general rule that they do. It would be far more accurate to say that those deemed gangsters and terrorists (though the names get applied loosely to a wide cast of characters) sometimes get the opportunity to become statesmen. Sometimes they take advantage of the opportunity. Sometimes they don't.

Arafat got the opportunity in 1993. If he had tried to act like a head of state everybody would have accepted him as a statesman. But he remained a gangster.

The way Arafat returned to Gaza in triumph in 1994 is instructive. He rode in a limousine which, it was noted, was heavily loaded and riding low. Turned out that not only was the limo packed with illicit arms, but Arafat himself was sitting on a wanted terrorist to smuggle him into Gaza! That was his conception of keeping a deal, you see.
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