I guess it would be ill-advised for the US to have killed Abbas deliberately (which I seriously, seriously doubt). But this is another issue — like Martha Stewart in a sense — where I cannot muster any outrage even in the worst-case scenario. Here’s a general rule: when you shoot an old man in a wheel chair and then huck him off the side of a boat: you deserve the negative consequences of your actions, no matter how much time transpires after it.