Media outlets last night were breathlessly covering Yasser Arafat's death and funeral. Wasn't yesterday Veteran's Day? Shouldn't we have been talking about the sacrfices our veterans have made for us in the past and presently? No. Instead we cover the terrorist...oops I mean Palestinian leader's funeral with tears in our eyes. If I'm wrong about this, drop me a line; but I'm pretty sure Arafat was a known terrorist or at the very least aided and encouraged terrorism throughout his reign of power. We can't air "Saving Private Ryan" because it's too brutal and too realistic of what great Americans had to go through in the fight for freedom, but we can clebrate the life and times of Yasser Arafat? In the words of Forrest Gump: "That's all I have to say about that."
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I guess I'm going to disagree with you to some degree. I see where you were going with this, but Arafats death is a HUGE story. The fact that he used terrorism as an aid in his cause, yet won the Nobel Peace Prize has to be one of the most dumbfounding things I've ever heard. Now that he's dead, maybe we'll have some "Peace in the Middle East". It's hilarious that CBS broke into "CSI:New York: with this news (and subsequently fired the person who made that decision), and people just lost it. I guess if it doesn't affect Americans directly, we just don't care about it. Ignorant fools, I shall crush them all when I become supreme ruler of the galaxy.
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