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.