May they be reunited soon (and in the same manner).
Much to be thankful to the Lord for and much to feel sadness for in this broken world.
couldn’t fit in a spider hole?
Many of the “countries” in that part of the world were “created.” Their “creators” mainly countries in Europe, knew exactly what they were doing.
They made sure the country they created included several groups that despise each other. Than the occupying country plays the game as follows: to group A, “you know, if we leave, group B and C will gang up and destroy you, better be thankful we are hear.” This is then repeated with groups B and C, with suitable substitutions of the antagonists. And it worked perfectly. This is how a relatively small country like England could have an “empire.”
The problem is, when the empire leaves or is driven out, you still have a bunch of groups that hate each other. Civil war immediately breaks out. Eventually a ruler, usually a dictator, rises up and puts a stop to it. All of the people are now all united because they all hate him. And besides, they remember the bloodshed that occurred before he showed up.
But people forget. And then the whole process must be repeated.
Wrong adjective. Compared to the various ends that could have happened, a summary execution was probably the kindest end they could give.
Something tells me Obama is feeling like a little school girl feeling a new tingle.......
II guess the UN will have to rename the Kaddafi prize for human rights after someone else.
The man had a sense of humor to the end:
“What did I ever do to you?”
Thats why, after careful consideration, I decided not to become a dictator. It never works out in the long run (except in North Korea).
ZERO going to the funeral? After all, Gadaffi did endorse him in '08. What are buddies for?
May they be reunited soon (and in the same manner).
May they be reunited soon (and in the same manner).
I have no particular dog in this fight nor do I think my country ought to. But if, by this, every tyrant in power sleeps a little less easily I can't say nothing good has come of it. I mean every tyrant everywhere. Draw your own conclusions.
Man, the big tough dictator had to go out like a little bitch, huh? Imagine how many victims of his regime died the same way. I bet the irony was lost on him...
“Eight year ago the United States made peace with Kaddafi, and put paid to the history between our two countries, including the Lockerbie bombing. The best and the brightest hailed this peace as a wonderful vindication of Bush’s foreign policy. U.S. officials including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Sen. John McCain, and President Obama had friendly meetings with Kaddafi over the years.
Kaddafi never violated his agreements with us and never became a threat to us or our allies. He spoke in the warmest terms of the United States and of Obama. Yet the instant that people whom we chose to call democrats rose up in rebellion against him, our ideology and what we perceived as our political self-interest required that we side against him. We attacked his country, bombed his military and his government, bombed his residence, drove him from power, and now we have killed him.
I will not become a moral relativist and make the despicable statement, as some commentators on the anti-war right have done, that the U.S. is as immoral as the Soviet Union. Nevertheless, there is now significant and terrible overlap between the behavior of the U.S.S.R and the behavior of the United States. We are not a moral state; we are not a state under the rule of law. We are, as Solzhenitsyn said of the Soviet Union, an ideological state, a state that will do anything, violate any agreement, betray any ally or friend, tell any lie, cover up any truth, in order to advance its ideology and its power that is associated with that ideology.
In betraying and killing a foreign leader with whom we had made peace, we have taken on terrible karma. I tremble to think of how that karma will manifest itself against us in the years to come.”
LA