Fighting wars to make peace, war against terror OR Terror against War... The Bush era has spawned a series of silly phrases.. And what is more ridiculous is that were actually taking them serious.
Each TRIAL of today's perpetrators of the most heinious crimes, exhibits far more catching Catch 22's than Joseph Heller could have ever imagined.
The US and UN with NATO ordered strikes to kill Gaddafi. Shoot a million dollars worth of missiles - from miles away - in an attempt to free the world of an apparently ruthless dictator. The number of innocents and associates of the dictator killed in a now very commonly used term "collateral damage" gets international pardon, keeping the ultimate goal - the elimination of a Gaddafi, in public vision.
And yet, when the blood thirsty, liberation army troops, who have had to fight the same battle on the ground, find him and inflict the same fate on this target, from close range.... The UN , the International Court of Justice, the Human Rights bodies of this very unjust world, cry foul. Now they want to investigate how, in what manner Gaddafi met his end.
Shoot from close and beat or torture him from close, and it becomes a crime against humanity.
Kill the same person and 200 other people in the vicinity with a missile strike or several of them, and this gets forgotten as a war of terror. It's just Collateral Damage.
We now will spend a few more billion dollars in investigating whether Gaddafi was killed in the right manner?
Wonder how much more they are going to spend on this closed file?
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