I'm ambivalent on this...the terror he foisted on his people for decades can lead to this sort of thing.
My fear is that these “rebels” will be worse...especially worse than he was since Bush declared the War on Terror
Time had passed him by much like it had the Red Army, Baader Meinhoff, Black September, Habash and Haddad and all that other radicalism he fostered and sheltered from the late early 70s on.
He shoulda just fled with what money he could put together and go to Caracas or wherever. Tough old nut.
We have only crossed into these barbarity times on occasion...not as a matter of course...Indian Wars..both sides, WBTS..both sides...especially in border states..and Sherman's March/Grant's total war never was very much applauded where I come from though Yankees adore it, some heavy handed stuff in our myriad tropical adventures and even in the World Wars here and there but not as routine military behavior
but summary executions and dismemberment and mass graves...Sand Creek maybe?...Seven Years War reprisals...very very rare for us
in fact for English Speaking peoples it's been rare since say Culloden with maybe a relapse with Boer internment camps in which unlike our Jap camps women and kids did die and in large numbers
and that is what makes us better than most folks in my view..to remain rational and human when we can behave otherwise with impunity
but one could also argue Mohammar sure had it coming
anyhow...no doubt in my mind just looking at these rebels...it ain't over...they will soon fight each other...and whoever wins could likely be worse and will without a doubt be more Islamist than Gaddafi
one last part of my rant...if it ever comes to a shooting war here..I can promise anyone...it will be far worse than anything we have witnessed before..it has the potential given the numbers and collateral players like China and others to be cataclysmic for the all human race on a scale not seen since plagues and famines half a millennium ago..once these things start they are hard to put back in the bottle and we have so many folks nowadays ..300 million and sharpest divisons in every facet I have ever seen in half century
just heard a .410 report outside and Wade comes in with his first squirrel..lol...mom will love me prepping it up in the kitchen..lol..he is so proud..I fear our squirrel population on our land is going to take a nosedive
Thanks WD
I agree with you on Libya, could get a lot worse
And Gaddafi WAS a tough old nut- fighting to the death like that, he could have lived like a king in Caracas- and why SIRTE? It’s collapse was inevitable, I really don’t get what he was thinking there. If he was going to stay in the country the desert was the only way to go, maybe he wanted to get it over with
And HEY... a .410 was my first gun, too