Here's where Qaddafi was hiding.
Here are photos of Qaddafi and Romania's Ceausescu. The pictures are graphic and that's why I'm displaying them as discretely as possible. Eight months ago, I compared Libya 2011 with Romania 1989. It's fitting how their respective rulers' last photos, showing them dead and sprawled out on the ground, look nearly identical.
Now matter how bad these guys were, it still makes me sad to see them treated like they were... Seeing Gadaffi being hit before being killed... in that moment he was just a harmless, fragile old man.
ReplyDeleteHe might have "deserved" it, but I naively had hopes this could end differently for him.
@Viva: I just saw video of him when he was still alive. I felt the same way you did. He was injured, scared, confused, and violently abused and shouted at.
ReplyDeleteBut then again, for months, Europeans and others offered him safe passage out of the country. He could be eating a nice steak in a comfortable jail cell with internet access in The Hague right now.
To the second part, exactly. Even before, he could have fled to some friendly African or Arab country and be eating that steak on some hidden villa protected by, let's say, Saudi or South African soldiers.
ReplyDeleteBut being a dictator for so long seems to be like a drug. Some just can't leave it.
The blowback from this one should be pretty interesting. Those rebels sure strike me as refined, organized, level-headed rule of law types. But if it makes some dough for Total, BP and Exxon I suppose we should all rejoice.
ReplyDeleteThe political repercussions and brutality of the petroleum economy are what really soured my interest in cars in general.
I didn't think she was that odious, but HRC's comments rocket her well ahead of Kissinger in the pompous sociopath stakes.