[Texasforever]

If you are going to damn a person with his own words then do it in the context in which he used them. From the same article

General Sharon might have sent in a platoon, pulled out Arafat and his 100 lieutenants and executed them on the entirely reasonable grounds that they embodied the terrorist movement in the West Bank. A bullet into the heart of Arafat is not a wayward contribution to the search for the infrastructure of the evil and genocidal war against Israel. So Palestine would be left leaderless? Such a problem would be that of the Palestinians who have tolerated Arafat for so many years.

[CrossCheck]

Agreed, WFB is correct in saying that placing a bullet in Yassir's heart would not be a bad thing. However, doing same would still have the effect of "intensified Palestinian hatred of Israel, estranged many Europeans and Americans, and fanned Islamic hostility" etc. Also, merely eliminating Yassir still leaves the terrorist infrastructure and bomb making apparatus in place, with plenty of aspiring "leaders" willing to take his place.

I would have preferred the elimination of Arafat as well as the course Sharon followed. Let's just say that WFB was half right.