Saturday, October 22, 2011

Crossfire

Gaddafi, they say, was killed by crossfire. Like when someone holds a gun to your head and pulls the trigger, I assume. That kind of crossfire. 


There was surely a better way.

2 comments:

HYDRIOTAPHIA said...

Witty irony ! Praiseworthy as his overthrow was, there seemed to be a lot of guys acting out machissmo fantasies brandishing machine-guns. Many looked and behaved like over-grown school-kids with their guns on T.V. footage. The 'Lord of the Flies' mentality inevitably led to a savage murder when in fact Gadaffi needed to be kept alive to answer many, many questions. Too late now.

Nick said...

Killing someone, even an evil man like Gaddafi, when he's begging for mercy is revenge of the most sour kind. Useless, cruel and ultimately self-defeating.