Arafat and the Boys

Reader/critic Patton points us here, a World Net round-up of the scant--though indeed scandalous--details of Yassar Arafat's "mysterious" illness.

Now I can't get naked Yassar off my mind. Thanks Patton.

Anyway, this is something that struck me since just before the election:

Bush and Sharon effectively have persuaded foreign leaders to disregard Arafat because of his direct involvement in terrorism and failure to make peace for his people. Many have agreed that a second Bush term would be the final nail in Arafat's political coffin.

No, that is not a deft metaphor of any kind, but what's actually happening is.

Bush's reelection represents and is the death of so much geriatric tyranny: Arafat, Castro, CARTER--history is punctuating their real and figurative longed-for demises with America's assured embrace of a different kind of leader. An American kind. Not only have we reembraced George Bush this November, I think we've reaffirmed our affinity for Ronald Reagan as well, the embodied refutation of all three of the old men dying this month.

It really is just such good news.