I have only read some of the posts here but wanted to give my views.
I was a bit disturbed by the video & coverage of Gadaffi's death. Seeing a human being taken alive, beaten, shot and then executed is terrible stuff. We seem to think it is ok simply because it is the type of thing we all grew up with as kids watching Hollywood movies. Tyrant at the start of the film kills a friend of the hero character, then follows an hour of this & that before revenge is sought.
O'm not pro or any any country or movement, I believe that different situations need to be analysed on their own. But I'll just say that out of Bin Laden, Saddam & Gaddafi, there was something profoundly just with how Saddam was treated. He was found, tried and then executed. With Bin Laden, I understand the US wanted to take him out with as few people knowing as possible. America saw killing him as being necessary for how he inspired and masterminded mass murder. But Gaddafi's death - what does that teach youngsters? When a wrong is committed, you go and seek revenge in the most bloodthirsty way possible? I have no sympathy for him, he obviously oppressed his people for a long time and contributed to violence in other countries but the manner is which he met his end was not right. The people of Libya should have had the opportunity to see him tried, hear the atrocities he committed in a court and then see him executed. Now I do understand that if this happened there was the potential for civil war for as long as he remained alive. Now that he is dead, that threat is lessened.
Maybe it's just me, but the world has become a more bloodthirsty place in the last ten years. Beheadings, murder, torture is freely available on the net and it seems most human suffering can be justified by something from the past. I personally think it is sad to see any human die as Gaddafi did, but also terrible to think of the countless number of people who met their end under his regime. That said, US & British forces have committed many atrocities in war zones across the world. It just seems that many people are searching for a reason to turn to violence & justifying it by whatever means they can.
Something to make you even sicker, on Channel Four News tonight was camera phone footage of him being sexual abused by a "soldier" with an iron bar in which he replied to the soldier "this is forbidden" - it was in religious terms. The footage is on Channel Fours website they wouldn't show the actual footage of the assualt but its on their website, unbelievable. Its amazing the type of scum that floats to the surface in war.