Well...you have to wonder sometimes. If Arafat, for example, started his terrorist career back in the 70s by hijacking airplanes, and went on to be responsible for the deaths of hundreds or thousands of innocents, and yet was allowed to die a natural death 30-some years later...I sometimes lose my temper and say "What the F**K are they thinking?!" Are these gubmint types in charge any smarter than the average working stiff? What the hell is wrong with them? What kind of games are we playing?
Sometimes gangsters can be reformed and made "respectable." But as the "Godfather" movies tell us, if you do evil, then it makes you evil.
Not much other than what they pickup in their little elite own echo chamber.
This is nothing new. Guess who won the test of wills back then? And the damn moron who lost the test is still a hero inside the echo chamber while the guy who won created a movement that shakes the world.