POSTED RESPONSES TO AN EDITORIAL IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
Well, the day before, Hillary Clinton said in Libya the United States would welcome his killing.
It doesn't get too much shabbier than that.
Her brutal words reminded me of Donald Rumsfeld's statement, early on in Afghanistan, that all the Taleban prisoners should either be walled away or killed.
And, what do know, a short time later, 3,000 prisoners the U.S. had held disappeared.
We know today they were driven out in batches in sealed vans onto the desert to suffocate. Then their bodies were dumped into mass graves.
Americans didn't do the actually murders, they just facilitated and encouraged them. Its soldiers - who were in charge everywhere - just stood around picking their noses while mass murder was carried out.
America is up to its hips in blood, and there no longer seems to be much in the way of limits.
Gaddafi's blood is definitely on Hillary's hands. I knew she was a rather nasty piece of work, but now she is a murderer.
As is her boss with his 2 to 3 thousand killings in Pakistan in the last couple of years, virtually all of them civilians.
There's no use pretending that only bloody dictators will be subject to extra-judicial killing in future.
Indeed, the United States has over the years been close friends and patrons of many dictators, and it still is today.
It's just a question of whether the leader or a group of people toe the American policy line in deciding whether they will be attacked.
The emerging nightmare scenario is the United States playing God across the entire planet, striking down anyone who disagrees seriously enough with it.
This is not a time for exultation over the death of a dictator, but shame and profound concern about the nature of our children's world.
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"The purpose of a trial is to determine guilt.
"Perhaps there are only a dozen or so people in the world who so blatantly admit their crimes to the world that a trial would be unnecessary."
You could not be more incorrect.
A trial is never, never unnecessary, full stop.
The purpose of a trial also is very much to proclaim that there is rule of law and openness in handing out justice - indeed, that part of the meaning of trials is far more important than determining guilt.
Only people or countries with something to hide encourage this kind of lawlessness, and that very much is the case for the United States.
We either have a society of laws, or we do not. You cannot have it both ways.
Although both the United States and Israel very much act as though they can.
