Every year I have a death to celebrate. Last year it was Tookie Williams. This year it's Saddam Hussein.
I don't really need to see the video. I need to see people acknowledge justice done. But like with Tookie, there is a class of Americans whose ability to invert moral rectitude is uncanny and dependable. As I go forward, I will endeavor to give such rabble less attention. Blogs work well with conflict and I dig making such conflict explicit, but I find myself with less patience engaging such folks as are passionately wrong. I'm trying to improve my taste in devil's advocates.
In the meantime, three cheers for the Iraqi government for being able to carry out this non-trivial trial, sentencing and execution. It is testimony to the fact that despite all mouthing and dedicated work to the sabatoging contrary, despots can be brought down within a reasonable period of time. If such things might have been said for the likes of Pinochet, America would be that much further along the road to delivering the kind of justice this world needs. Not peace at any price, but exacting a price on tyranny. That's expensive work, but I don't think the UN has ever accomplished it. Nations are still prime.
It makes for good drama. George W. Bush sets in motion the liberation of a people and sees the execution of a man who would have murdered his father. It makes for good geopolitics, that is to say it would make for better geopolitics if the bleeding hearts didn't have so much faith in The Lancet and more in those publications that documented Saddam's genocide at Anfal. But the essential act has been completed.
What remains is the satisfaction of the bloodthirsty murdering factions in Iraq - the unworthy heirs of an oil bounty which is their destiny. As the twisted continue to blame America for the chaos they foment and their murder of 12,000 Iraqi police, we have to keep our heads.
Good riddance to Saddam. Between him and the vicious rabble now disrupting the lives of millions and the better judgment of Americans, let us hope that Al Maliki and his successors are able to create and maintain the power to rule Iraq justly. This is a good first step to show the proper dedication. This is more than just toppling a statue, this establishes a new benchmark for swift justice in response to tyranny.
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