Absolutely. I couldn't agree more about the rush to approve his death over here, with graphic pictures splashed all over the frontpages. And I couldn't agree more with the hypocrisy of sucking up to him for oil one moment, and celebrating his death at the next.
One thing to give slight pause, though, is that Gadaffi wasn't killed by Obama, or Cameron, or Western troops. He was killed by his countrymen, by Arabs who thought it was ok to kill this Arab man. I'm not saying that makes it more or less wrong, but it's at least worth recording that the West didn't kill him, his own people did.
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Date: 2011-10-21 11:15 am (UTC)I couldn't agree more about the rush to approve his death over here, with graphic pictures splashed all over the frontpages. And I couldn't agree more with the hypocrisy of sucking up to him for oil one moment, and celebrating his death at the next.
One thing to give slight pause, though, is that Gadaffi wasn't killed by Obama, or Cameron, or Western troops. He was killed by his countrymen, by Arabs who thought it was ok to kill this Arab man. I'm not saying that makes it more or less wrong, but it's at least worth recording that the West didn't kill him, his own people did.