Anduril
12-31-2004, 09:41 AM
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Wall Street Journal *
The End of the Affair
This was the year when the civilized world's romance with terrorists ended.
Friday, December 31, 2004 *
It is fitting that this was the year Yasser Arafat died. When the history of the war on terror is written, 2004 will be remembered as the moment when the romance of the terrorist finally faded away.
Arafat was the romantic terrorist par excellence, the man who was given the podium of the U.N. General Assembly in 1974, just months after Palestinian gunmen had murdered 26 Israeli schoolchildren in Ma'alot. For the next three decades, an ever-broadening patch of the West came to see Arafat and his associates as militants, not terrorists, worthy of Nobel Prizes and White House overnights and states to call their own.
There is another way in which 2004 witnessed the fading of the romance, and this has to do with the myth of terrorist invincibility.
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http://www.opinionjournal.c om/editorial/feature.html?id=1100 06091
Wall Street Journal *
The End of the Affair
This was the year when the civilized world's romance with terrorists ended.
Friday, December 31, 2004 *
It is fitting that this was the year Yasser Arafat died. When the history of the war on terror is written, 2004 will be remembered as the moment when the romance of the terrorist finally faded away.
Arafat was the romantic terrorist par excellence, the man who was given the podium of the U.N. General Assembly in 1974, just months after Palestinian gunmen had murdered 26 Israeli schoolchildren in Ma'alot. For the next three decades, an ever-broadening patch of the West came to see Arafat and his associates as militants, not terrorists, worthy of Nobel Prizes and White House overnights and states to call their own.
There is another way in which 2004 witnessed the fading of the romance, and this has to do with the myth of terrorist invincibility.
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http://www.opinionjournal.c om/editorial/feature.html?id=1100 06091