A 'momentous day'. - US President B. Obama. For whom?
I suppose you can understand the violent reprisals and retaliatory vengeance of the common Libyan. 40 years of brutal oppression at the end of a gun and the blood of innocents is difficult to cleanse. Even so, this way of settling differences is an injustice.
'It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on a cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence' - Mahatma Gandhi
Global leaders, in haste, opportunistically celebrating the post-capture execution and subsequent display of the body, in flagrant religious violation, does not reconcile with the veneer that is 'justice for all'. It's vicarious violence in its purest form. It is an unwise confirmation of our inhumanity. Perhaps even, proof undeniable of an irretrievable decay of conscience.
If western leaders, the United Nations included, paraphrased, celebrate a 'momentous day' without explicit condemnation of what was, quite obviously, the execution of a wounded, unarmed man and therefore by anybody's definition, cold-blooded murder, then we celebrate a cruelty. Looking to these same individuals for leadership in these trying economic times seems, if anything, a dream of fools.
I suppose you can understand the violent reprisals and retaliatory vengeance of the common Libyan. 40 years of brutal oppression at the end of a gun and the blood of innocents is difficult to cleanse. Even so, this way of settling differences is an injustice.
'It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on a cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence' - Mahatma Gandhi
Global leaders, in haste, opportunistically celebrating the post-capture execution and subsequent display of the body, in flagrant religious violation, does not reconcile with the veneer that is 'justice for all'. It's vicarious violence in its purest form. It is an unwise confirmation of our inhumanity. Perhaps even, proof undeniable of an irretrievable decay of conscience.
If western leaders, the United Nations included, paraphrased, celebrate a 'momentous day' without explicit condemnation of what was, quite obviously, the execution of a wounded, unarmed man and therefore by anybody's definition, cold-blooded murder, then we celebrate a cruelty. Looking to these same individuals for leadership in these trying economic times seems, if anything, a dream of fools.
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