Daphne, Il était pour décourager pas encourager d’autres!

[Daphne – Actually, the saying is ‘pour encourager les autres’. Even the French use irony sometimes. Read up here: http://www.everything2.com/title/Pour+encourager+les+autres ]

@ Daphne: I beg to differ; what I watched on Al Jazeera as the event unfolded, was a surrender and the reporter said he had told his captors “Don’t shoot”.

The English reporter also said that he was captured uninjured and that he had watched him being “slapped and kicked”.

Who am I to believe?

[Daphne – Surrendered? Oh, you mean as opposed to lying down and digging his nails into the dirt while screaming ‘I will never surrender’?]

Frank. by an chance, would your middle name be Chamberlain?

Joe Borg, many Maltese people still think that Mintoff was one of the greatest leaders of all times, too. It takes all sorts.

Cathartic it may be, but the fact of the matter remains that new Libya has started out on the wrong foot.

Libyans could have chosen to show the morality and justice that the monster they have deposed did not have.

And please spare me the sanctimonious tear jerking bull shit. Of course I cannot compass what Libyans have been through, neither can I begin to understand what the raped woman or orphaned child of a murdered parent have been through either.

Do I applaud the summary murder of the rapist or the murderer?

I think not, but you are free to of course. By the way, once there was a little thing called the Nuremberg trials where a number of monsters were given due process.

[Daphne – Yes, the prime purpose of which was pour encourager les autres, and it appears to have not served that purpose at all.]

Now that Gaddafi is dead, it seems like we have avoided the “vindication.”

Libya made Gaddafi rich.

If you insist on using posh words like ‘tangible’, then at LEAST learn how to spell them before you do so.

I’m going to assume you’re joking. Because no one can be so screwed up in his logic as to believe Gaddafi loved his people.

His refusal to step aside way back in February cost the lives of 50,000 Libyans and ruined the lives of countless others.

He did not surrender to the rebels.

He was dragged out of a drainage pipe with nowhere else to flee.

[Daphne – And he begged for his life and promised gold in return for being allowed to live. Really brave and dignified.]

The only thing he loved about ‘his’ people (and he really thought they were his to do with as he pleased) was the adulation he demanded from them.

struth! You for real?