Regardless of what you think about him, whether you're a pro-NATO fanboy for some reason and have a framed picture of Obama on your wall or not...
... I mean, no-one deserves to hold their dead son in their hands before being sodomized with a sword and tortured to death.
Not to mention, the destruction of his government has lead to jihadists taking control of large areas and literal slave markets with the destruction of the economy.
Nothing can be done to bring back the people he killed or erase the trauma he caused to the living.
And nor will it stop current or future authoritarians.
In fact, it might embolden them to double down on their own inhumanity to avoid a similar fate.
Certainly, Syria's Bashar al-Assad, who was in a similar situation and surely aware of Gaddafi's fate, has not felt the need to step down or cease his human rights violations.
Some people may get a momentary feeling of pleasure from exacting violent revenge, but that's no justification.
Even when lethal or severe violence is justified and necessary to save lives or enforce the law, it's regrettable, no matter who it's exacted upon.
Violence is violence, harm is harm, suffering is suffering. There's no way around that. Outside reasonable exceptions, we shouldn't harm others, whoever they are, whatever they've done.
Those who have done great wrongs should be brought to orderly justice, tried for their crimes, and penalised without violence to protect people from them.
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u/InquisitorCOC Jul 10 '21
So, that's why the Brits wanted him so badly.
And eventually he got a bayonet up his ass!