Qaddaffi is testing the waters. He knows the US is tied up in Iraq. He knows that Europe will never grow enough stones to use military force against him on their own. And displays of force are the only thing that matters to him.
So that, & the imminent judicial murder of the Bulgarian nurses, plus his attempt at freeing the Lockerbie Bomber & extorting every single coin of compensation money back from the EU that the victims got in settlement, are all new signs that Mommar sees himself on the comeback trail.
I predict a Libyan invasion of a North African Nation within 5 years.
There have been some wise points made above about how the US has mishandled the execution.
Of course Saddam was a monster, but it’s still important to use moral and legal means to set an example.
As I recall, when the US invaded Iraq, it set up a provisional Government, which promptly announced all the rules for trying Saddam, instead of using existing laws.
That Government is now gone and any country that invades another and sets up its own rules for executions can say “well, we are simply following the US example”.
I guess on the bright side, we have been trying to install an American style governement there, and we’ve already got the state-sponsored revenge killing thing done.
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He is a hero to some Sunni Muslims. Many have rioted in Iraq since his execution. It’s pretty telling that the Iraq govmt can’t even carry out an execution well. Maybe a surge would help.
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For some reason I read the word “surge” in that sentence and think “purge,”
or perhaps “enema.”
Thanks for the reference. I should have known that the great Cecil would have handled this subject. Let me just say, I still like Ka-Daffy. Just a a personal choice.
Please tell me you’re not defending brutality in the name of order. Are you a fan of Stalin, perhaps?
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Maybe he’s a fan of the US Marines. What exactly would you call the flattening of Fallujah, among many other actions under the orders of He Who I’m Not Gonna Name, if not brutality in the name of order?
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It’s about time the West learned you can’t draw lines on a map and expect that to negate 100s of generations of tribal loyalties. :rolleyes:
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You just have to draw the lines somewhere if you want to have a functioning 21st century populace.
It has worked very well in the Americas and it did work very well most everywhere else including Iraq except Africa. Even there, I’ve seen little evidence of boundary modification.
The problem is that methods and solutions requiring success to stabalize a country are no longer acceptable to the powerful and priviledged societies that are addicted to technological solutions and respect for human life on both sides of the issue. Saddam succeeded where Bush could not. That is a fact.
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Maybe he’s a fan of the US Marines. What exactly would you call the flattening of Fallujah, among many other actions under the orders of He Who I’m Not Gonna Name, if not brutality in the name of order?
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If you think I’m going to defend Bush, you’ve got the wrong guy.
Perhaps this isn’t polarized enough for you to understand, but I believe Saddam was a brutal dictator and I am against Bush and his war.
