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Killed in Sirte this morning.
The reported details are a bit sketchy, but this is what BBC is reporting.
And the battle begins for who in America gets credit.
Addendum: Qaddafi in 1970.
It appears that he was alive when captured, but didn’t make it to the hospital. Hmmmm.
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October 20, 2011 at 3:09 pm
ED Denson
Ben Laudin, Qaddafi, that guy in Fort Bragg – we seem to be having a hard time keeping people alive, once caught.
October 20, 2011 at 5:20 pm
Eric Kirk
Goes back to Mussolini actually.
http://www.custermen.com/ItalyWW2/ILDUCE/Mussolini.htm
October 21, 2011 at 7:36 am
Mitch
Jon Stewart noticed how the GOP, for the most part, couldn’t manage to say something nice about one of President Obama’s strategies working.
But this National Journal piece truly takes the cake.
Written especially for innumerates, it complains about the cost of removing Qaddafi, even while pointing out that it was about 0.2% of the cost of the Iraq war. (It doesn’t do the calculation for its fans.)
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/exclusive/1-billion-one-dictator-094911231.html
October 21, 2011 at 7:38 am
Mitch
Speaking of innumeracy, that should be “less than 0.1%” of the costs of the Iraq war. The about 0.2% is in comparison with the Afghanistan war.
Oh, yeah, number of U.S. service members lost in the conflict? Yup.
October 21, 2011 at 11:42 am
Eric Kirk
Mitch – Actually, McCain apparently did praise Obama, which led Rush Limbaugh to slam McCain with some incoherent joke about McCain kissing Obama’s ass, only he doesn’t have one so McCain has to kiss Michelle Obama’s, because she’s so fat and all.
October 21, 2011 at 1:44 pm
Sonia Baur
Actually, I think if we are ever to get to any better place in our relationships with each other as humans, we must accept a moral premise that people should not kill people. “Humanitarian bombing” OXYMORON. And then how does it become acceptable that Obama himself alone can designate people to be killed- bang dead- by drones, and Osama can be captured alive (with wives & children as witnesses) the killed and deep-sixed with concrete boots into the Mediterranean Sea?
October 21, 2011 at 1:58 pm
Dave Kirby
Its called the real world Sonia. I’m sure if you lost friends and relatives to Qadaffi’s hired killers you might rethink your position. Mad dogs need to be put down. Its not Oprah world out there.
October 21, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Erasmus
“Humanitarian bombing” is no more oxymoronic than “cutting open a human body in order to cure it” (i.e., what surgeons do). Only a fanatical pacifist would have opposed the bombing of Nazi supply depots, even at the cost of some human life. Full-bore pacifists like Gandhi end up advocating truly heartless positions, and there is no clear-cut anti-war doctrine in any of the three major monotheistic religions. (Read C.S. Lewis’s essay “Why I Am Not a Pacifist” in the volume The Weight of Glory.)
October 21, 2011 at 3:42 pm
Eric Kirk
Erasmus – I’m not an absolute pacifist, but Jesuit writer Robert McSorley wrote a very convincing rebuttal to Lewis in The New Testament Basis for Peacemaking. He addressed all of the passages often cited by Christians advocating war as well as the hawk deconstruction of the passages cited by Christian pacifists. I came away quite convinced that if you took the texts of the NT to heart, McSorley was right and Lewis was wrong. But then, I’m only a cultural Christian really.
October 21, 2011 at 6:49 pm
Sonia Baur
I have listened to the words of American WWII GIs, both the bombed (Kurt Vonnegut) and the bombing (Howard Zinn), and I am influenced by their experiences.
October 22, 2011 at 7:13 am
Erasmus
Eric —- You should read the Lewis essay – and I should read the McSorley. (I’ll keep my eyes open for it.) Lewis’s piece is a speech he delivered before a pacifist group in war-torn England in the 40s. To me, it’s a model of fine prose and civilized argumentation.