A UN Probe Into Death of Qaddafi? They’ve Got to Be Kidding…
But the UN is a serious place, led by serious people, such as UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay, who was seriously concerned a few years ago about the execution of Saddam Hussein. Now she’s upset over the killing of Qaddafi. Apparently the Russian government, with its serious interest in law, is concerned as well.
Seems like before all these serious folks pour their energies (plus U.S. taxpayer dollars) into probing the demise of Qaddafi, they ought to launch a probe into how it happened that during the past few years the UN gave Qaddafi’s Libya a seat on the Security Council, made one of his envoys president of the General Assembly, elected Libya to the Human Rights Council, made Qaddafi’s daughter a UN Goodwill Ambassador and picked Libya to chair the preparations for the Durban II conference, starring Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, held in 2009 at the UN offices in Geneva.
I’d would normaly be laughing because the UN makes great comedy. But when my tax dollars go to this great farce it’s a tragedy.
I remind you that if G. W. Bush had done the exact same thing under the exact same circumstances, there’d be impeachment hearings. It isn’t as if there’s a substantial connection between Qaddafi and the GWOT. This was just for kicks.
It’s funny to watch the UN trying to be relevant in the 21st century. I really think we’ve already seen the end of this organization as a major player in world events. Calling for UN intervention these days is sort of an empty ritual – like saying “Bless you” when somebody sneezes. Polite governments do it to acknowledge all that international cooperation stuff, then go off and do whatever they want. In practical terms, the UN is just another well-fed international relief agency – and not the most effective one, either.
I don’t know. If the various graphic videos of Daffy’s demise, with repeated kicking of a nearly dead man, really go viral, it might give some of our Librul friends something useful to ponder — are these the sorts of Islamic lunatics we want to encourage?
You’re not supposed to notice that the “democracy” movement isn’t.
Those are the only kind there is. They’re also the sort The Obamanation has loosed onto Wall Street, etc.
Where was all this concern when he was still alive?
I predict this probe will find that the U.S. and Israel are to blame for…..
Poor Farrakhan and McKinney.How will get their money now that Ghaddafi is gone????
…or many of the top heads of state in Europe, Africa and the Levant who received lots of payoffs over the years. The fall of the Saddamites in Iraq was already devastating to Ministries of Graft and Corruption around the globe.
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The UN has finally achieved its goal. It’s UN-relevant, UN-credible, UN-effective, UN-efficient, UN-believable.
Isn’t it time we UN-do our role in the UN?
I think it’s a great idea. Questions of bias aside, this is the same institution that keeps investigating Israel for acts of self defense against Arab provocations, it’s about time the Arabs had a taste of a crimes against humanity investigation. Perhaps the UN could also start with NATO for taking gross liberties–mission creep– with the UN authorization for no fly zones over Libya that resulted in the pretrial execution of Gadaffi? Then maybe the UN could move on to United States DOJ for apparently authorizing international gun running into Mexico to stimulate the killings of Mexican nationals rather than their arrests, trials, and convictions for drug trafficking? Looks like a crime against humanity to me. I thought the UN was supposed to provide for the rule of law between nations so we wouldn’t have all these feeding frenzies when those gentlemen’s agreements break down over access to oil, power, and prestige?
The U.N. has no credibility whatsoever, but such an investigation could be a rare instance of them serving a useful function. The videos show Qaddafi being beaten and tortured before being summarily executed (needless to say, without trial). Now, it would be utter foolishness to insist that the brutal lynch mob that stomped Qaddafi to death was acting consistently with the principles of justice we Westerners claim to adhere to. Mob vengeance is un-American, and its a shame to see so-called conservatives thoughtlessly echoing Hillary Clinton’s machismo crowing “we came, we saw, he died”. Just because Farrakhan said it was wrong doesn’t mean it was right. If we claim we can’t control the rebels, then what the hell are we doing there, putting our faith in jihadi rebels?
Obama has tarnished the United States by his handling of Libya, and though Qaddafi was the lowest of the low, this sorry event didn’t help us or anybody else. When Somalis dragged U.S. servicemen through the streets, we decried their barbarity, not only because the soldiers were good and honorable men who did not deserve such a fate, but because human beings should never drag human beings through the streets – period. Now we, through NATO, are implicated in medieval barbarity. The Western way of dealing justice to mass murderers was exhibited at Nuremberg. Lets not sink to the level of the jihadi lynch mobs.
I have to disagree. It would be a boring old world if revolutionaries weren’t allowed to summarily execute deposed dictators. They, not the “international community,” have the right to decide what becomes of their hated former El Jefes. If the “international community” had really been concerned about Gadaffi’s welfare, they would have been negotiating with the Libyan rebels from day one to ensure they didn’t slaughter him. His trial or safe conduct under arrest to the Hague or someplace could have been a condition attached to our assisting the rebels. Did nobody think of that? For everyone to suddenly pop up with legal objections looks…well, silly. Weak. Foolish. Unrealistic. Sorry, but “Up against the wall” has always been and always will be Plan A for dealing with people like Gadaffi.
I can’t shed any tears for the Colonel, but Hillary Clinton is a four star idiot to crow about his demise. Obama betrayed the previous administration’s assurances that we’d leave the Duck alone if he stopped pursuing WMDs. Now it’s obvious to all concerned in the MENA theater (assuming it wasn’t already)that American promises mean nothing, and nuclear deterrence is dead, dead, dead.
Investigators to the question of who killed Qaddafi should also ask: Where are the fifty thousand blacks in Libya, they are not seen in prison? Another question should be: Who has murdered the hundred thousand infidels that supported Qaddafi? The questions if truthfully answered would shock the good guys of the world.
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