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Africa North
Libyan 'Crossfire' -- Qaddafi chose his bloody end.
2011-10-28
Charles Krauthammer

You've got your Mexican standoff, your Russian roulette, your Chinese water torture. And now, your Libyan crossfire. That's when a pistol is applied to the head and a bullet crosses from one temple to the other.
Somebody has been reading tales from the RAB's Crossfire Gazette.
The Hammer does have a way with words, doesn't he...
That's apparently what happened to Moammar Qaddafi after he was captured by Libyan rebels -- died in a "crossfire," explains Libya's new government. This has greatly agitated ACLU types, morally unemployed ever since a Democratic administration declared Guantanamo humane. ...

Let's begin at the beginning. Early in the revolution, Qaddafi could have had due process. Indeed, he could have had something better: asylum (in Nicaragua, for example
Or Venezuela, where el Presidente Chavez really wants a playmate to amuse his declining years)
with a free pass for his crimes. If he stepped down, thereby avoiding the subsequent civil war that killed thousands of his countrymen, he could have enjoyed a nice fat retirement, like that of Idi Amin in Saudi Arabia. ... Qaddafi could have had such a peace-over-justice compromise. He chose instead to fight to the death. He got what he chose.

That fateful decision to fight -- and kill -- is the prism through which to judge the cruel treatment Qaddafi received in his last hours. It is his refusal to forgo those final crimes, those final shellings of civilians, those final executions of prisoners, that justifies his rotten death. ...

So he was killed by his captors. Big deal. So was Mussolini. So were the Ceausescus. They deserved far worse. As did Qaddafi. In a world of perfect justice, this Caligula should have suffered far more, far longer. He inflicted unimaginable suffering upon thousands. What did he suffer? Perhaps an hour of torment and a shot through the head. By any standard of cosmic justice, that's mercy. ...
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