It might be good comment upon the Minnesota legislature's decision to shut down the government for the 4th of July holiday over negotiations with the government employee labor unions, yet that must wait...For comparative background information on the Iraq post-war anomie one might draw upon the experience of Israel following the 1967 six-day war. In the three years leading to Black September 1970 Abu Amar and George Habash and other terrorists led a renewal of terrorism upon Israel from bases in Jordan. In that three year period, according to Mosher Dayan’s biography (from which much of this paradigm is drawn) there were more than 5000 terrorist incidents upon Israeli’s, and nearly 150 deaths and 800 casualties.
Large terrorist bases grew for Palestinians in Jordan that eventually challenged the Government of Jordan to rule. Previously a King Abdullah had been assassinated, and attempts were made on the life of his grandson King Hussein.
Eventually in 1970 Jordanians moved to close down the Palestinian terrorist campuses, Syrian threatened to intervene and sent tanks and other military personnel to assist the terrorists, and Jordan requested U.S. support in a possible war against Syria; the U.S. agreed and fully activated the 82nd airborne regiment, and gave a dire warning to the Syrian Government. In time the Jordanian military routed the terrorist strongholds until they were for the time deleted from that nation. Israel knew a time of comparative peace.
Yassir Arafat (Abu Amar) had been on the West Bank in 1967 trying to organize a Palestinian terrorist revolt, yet nothing came of it immediately so he left. Terrorists following up on the swift American military victory in Iraq are perhaps still continuing along Abu Amar’s path of an intafadah of terrorism from trans-border locales. It is quite possible that Syria is again playing a key role in supporting migratory international terrorists upon a neighbor nation, and with the election of a former captor of American hostages in Iran, another avenue of terrorist support seems to have been opened to provide aid and comfort to suicide bombers carrying out policy that is costly to America’s rather traditionally inept foreign policy goals and methods.
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