Gadhaffi is dead, and the Libyan people are dancing in the streets. Initial commentary is that the world is much better off - and I hope this to be true. No people deserve to live in the horrible conditions that the Libyans were forced to live under for the last 40 years. (Lockerbie and the AIDS trials of the Bulgarian nurses were but small glimpses of the horror that the population had to live with.) But why am I so strongly reminded of Ceausecu and Romania? Is it because Western nations played with the dictator until his acts became so intolerable that he was dropped? Is it just because both dictators were executed in cold blood?
So many stories will remain unknown. I hope the Libyans come out the other side in better shape than the Roumanians did.
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