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Who said the UN or Arafat was under Guilliani's authority? I said he refused to deal with him. You were simply uninformed of Guilliani's dealings with Arafat. A simple google search would have saved you the embarasment.



While I appreciate your concern, The Ghoul didn't have to deal with Arafat; he forced a confrontation by having Arafat pressured out of an event. Nice spelling, BTW.

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BTW- when you quote "The Nation" self-described as "the flagship of the left", your really not in a position to raise the agenda of a source.



All sorts of people have written for The Nation and the late author of that piece was a lot more distinguished than the obscure crank who authored the article to which you linked. And at the risk of being overly pedantic, what sort of lawyer doesn't know the difference between your and you're?

The Full Rudy: The Man, the Myth, the Mania

Newfield reminds us that in April 1999 Giuliani had only a 40 percent approval rating. A year later his divorce lawyer was savagely attacking his wife, Donna Hanover, while the mayor was flaunting his mistress in public. As a result, Giuliani’s popularity plummeted again in the spring of 2000. He was almost a laughingstock when he withdrew from his Senate campaign against Hillary Clinton. He looked like a control freak who had lost control of himself. Then came 9/11, and Giuliani re-emerged as an international celebrity. He took charge when the towers fell, and he displayed leadership when others were dumbstruck. He was named Time magazine’s "Person of the Year," the avatar of the stricken city. He did a victory lap around the country, raising money for Republican candidates and giving speeches for $100,000 a pop; he may rake in $10 million over the next year. Yet even as he became a part of pop iconography, celebrated as "America’s Mayor," Giuliani was still loathed in some black neighborhoods in the city. People in Brownsville, Texas, might have thought of him as their mayor, but blacks in Brownsville, Brooklyn, did not. In The Full Rudy Newfield gives the devil his due, conceding that New York City did become a better place to live during Giuliani’s two terms. He was skilled at solving problems that lent themselves to the application of a military-style strategy but he was a mayor of excess, a mayor of missed opportunities, political opportunism, and stunning harshness. Photographs and cartoons add to this Emmy award-winning journalist's myth-busting portrait.

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PS - I'm not black, either.