An Execution In Vain
So it finally came to that. No more Saddam, no more number one excuse to shed so many gallons of blood. The same people who fought so adamantly for Schiavo's life rooted for the swiftest extermination of this one. Both deaths were more of a political parade than affirmations of any democratic or ethical principle. The execution that resolves nothing and marks nothing. All the sides to the conflict will make something out of it to prolong the very same conflict.
The picture was taken by a French correspondent in an Indian city of Kolkata where a Moslem boy mourns Saddam's death with a very Christian tradition of lighting candles and Hindu flower offerings. Globalization at its kitschiest.
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Please, spear me the tear filled eulogy for Saddam Insane. He got what all dictators get in the end, he got killed.
ReplyDeleteHow is not important, what is important is the certainty that if a leader of a country does not follow convention, attacks his neighbors and tries to assassinate other foreign leaders that the world responds to this kind of madness and eradicates it.
Iran is next!!!!!
Please, spear me the tear filled eulogy for Saddam Insane. He got what all dictators get in the end, he got killed.
ReplyDeleteHow is not important, what is important is the certainty that if a leader of a country does not follow convention, attacks his neighbors and tries to assassinate other foreign leaders that the world responds to this kind of madness and eradicates it.
Iran is next!!!!!
I can only agree with the "if the leader of a country" clause. Does it apply to Bush and Putin? :)
ReplyDeleteI agree on this one Val with all my heart! Every execution is in vain, and as I read it a year later your point is corroborated by facts! What has the execution changed? Nothing. We are still in Iraq and the bloodshed continues. How tragic!
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