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To quote Andrew Sullivan: To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mo
by Aloisius 15y ago
To quote Andrew Sullivan:
To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now.
- mhb 15y ago“It’s a great day,” Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, said on CNN on Thursday morning. “I think the administration deserves great credit. Obviously, I had different ideas on the tactical side, but the world is a better place.” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/world/africa/qaddafis-death-is-latest-victory-for-new-us-approach-to-war.html?hp http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/world/africa/qaddafis-deat...
- derleth 15y agoAnd that's why McCain is a RINO. /sarcasm
- brown9-2 15y agoSomewhat ironic for McCain to say so: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/03/john-mccains-twitter-archive-reveals-2009-gadhafi-meeting-late-evening/ http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/03/john-mccains-tw...
- mhb 15y agoWhy?
- harold 15y agoPerhaps that Nobel Peace Prize was a bit premature. I would rather Qaddafi had been brought to trial and punished accordingly.
- Shalanga 15y agoI wonder if someone should me punished accordantly when launching someone's country an atomic bomb. No punishment, just history... Everything a bliss.
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- hvs 15y agoI would rather that he had been brought to trial, but I think he was punished accordingly.
- tamersalama 15y agoI would say a court marshal ending with a televised execution wouldn't been better. This man was evil. And he was crazy. A violent death, no matter how, is what he deserved.
- huhtenberg 15y ago> This man was evil. And he was crazy. That's what they said on TV, didn't they? Must be true then. In other words - how do you know? How do you know the picture you are being fed by the media is accurate enough to assign him a "violent death" as a proper punishment? And without a public trial at that.
- burgerbrain 15y ago"how do you know?" He was a politician wasn't he? Seems proof enough as far as I'm concerned.
- redthrowaway 15y agoThis kind of pseudo-intellectual relativism is depressing. The man massacred his own people. He was insane. Don't take CNN's word for it; listen to the damned audiotapes yourself. Critically analyzing media portrayals is good. Dismissing any conclusions reached as, "well nobody can really say" is facile and lazy. It's what people who don't have anything to add to the conversation say in an attempt to sound smart.
- huhtenberg 15y ago> It's what people who don't have anything to add to the conversation say in an attempt to sound smart. This applies to literally every comment on this page. It is not "well nobody can really say" dismissal. It is a matter of media feeding made-up facts since current conflict started. You must've missed the photos of insurgents storming strongholds in their flip-flops, the same guy posing dead in more than one position and other marvels of staged photography. The fighting was there, but it was not done by "insurgents" photographed by the press. Whatever was coming out of the tube was an A grade orchestrated bullsh#t. That's what's depressing. If you are comfortable cheering on his death provided with such accurate and transparent media coverage, who am I to spoil the fun.
- zerostar07 15y agoWhat shocks me most is that none of these (despicable) people lived to be taken to trial. Odd that the western world seems so comfortable with blood.
- roboneal 15y agoAmazing the shift of perspective... How many who voted for Obama (or at least against John McCain) would expect their vote would elect a President who would violate the sovereignty of Pakistan with a special forces operation, murder an American citizen without due process, and enter into armed conflict with Libya without the consultation of Congress and eventually assassinate a sitting head of state?
- sp332 15y agoWhich head of state did the US assassinate?
- astine 15y agoI think he means Gaddafi, but he was killed by Libyans, not Americans.
- thematt 15y agoPerhaps, but there are reports coming out now that a Predator drone fired on his convoy, so the US wasn't exactly hands off.
- maratd 15y agoI don't think the Libyans would have been able to kill him without our help.
- sp332 15y agoProviding material support to a revolution isn't the same thing as an assassination. Due process doesn't apply on a battlefield, but it should apply to a prisoner in custody.
- burgerbrain 15y agoI don't think it's known at this point that Qaddafi was assassinated by the US. The two more common things I'm hearing is that he was either shot by rebels or hit by a NATO air-strike, which is kind of ambiguous.
- astine 15y agoThe GOP might be singing his praises, but the Democratic Caucus would be screaming bloody murder about the lack of trials. It's all politics.
- cpeterso 15y ago> The GOP might be singing his praises. Not likely.
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