Tuesday, November 09, 2004
Say your leader, a very rich man, needed urgent medical care that was unavailable where you live. Would you send him to France? Maybe if you did not like him very much. Or if you wanted to go to a place that had experience in dealing with dictators with discretion. In Yassir Arafat's case, it's probably a little from column A and a little from column B. The reported symptoms along with the intense secrecy regarding the whole matter lead me to one conclusion. Arafat got a shampoo bottle stuck in his ass. "Honest, doc...I slipped in the shower. It was a one in a million event." He could not bear having an Arab doctor see his x-ray with a bottle of Pert Plus lodged where the Israelis would never find it.
