From the desk of George Handlery on Fri, 2011-04-01 16:32 The time approaches when Gaddafi might be joining his Serbian and Rwandan colleagues-in-political-crime. This comes about by becoming a full room and board guest of an international tribunal. The prediction hinges on a pre-condition. Primarily, it involves not so much “The Guide’s” ability to hold on to power – regardless of intermittent tactical successes- that appears to be increasingly unlikely. His paid goons have contracted to serve in a machinery of oppression directed against defenseless victims. To serve in that function, the quality demanded of them is the willingness to kill people to which they feel no kinship. What the deal did not include was a sincerely meant commitment to fight heroically a lost battle against insurmountable odds. Going down as the heroes of a “Götterdämmerung” in the last bunker on the side of a “Leader” might look good in a history book. However, such a role is not attractive to folks who rent themselves out on a thousand-dollars-a-day basis. In this respect, Gaddafi’s praetorians differ from the SS. A tidbit to illustrate the ideological commitment that Gaddafi does not enjoy. The last Iron Cross/Ritterkreuz of the Nazi régime was awarded during the siege of Berlin. The recipient was a French member of the Waffen SS.Decriminalizing Crime
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