The Heat of the Moment

It would have been better for Gaddafi to have been captured and sent to trial than being killed but where were those now saying the killing was wrong when Osama bin Laden was murdered in cold blood? None of them uttered a word of condemnation against Obama who ordered Osama to be killed so one can only assume that murdering someone is alright when ordered by a godlike creature like Obama but not when in the febrile heat of what must have been a highly volatile, adrenalin filled situation the rebel troops suddenly found they had captured the man they had been fighting against. The BBC condoned Obama's actions and thereby let us down and is doing so again by its holier than thou condemnation of the actions of the Libyan rebel soldiers. It is regrettable that Gaddafi was killed for all sorts of reasons (not least because of Lockerbie, Yvonne Fletcher and Tony Blair)  but completely understandable as well. What would any of us do suddenly finding amongst us the leader of the enemy we had been fighting. The leader who was responsible for all the loss of life and misery meted out on the rebels and their supporters. The leader who brutalised those of his fellow countrymen who had tried to stand up to him during the long years of his dictatorship, who had stolen so much of his country's wealth for the self aggrandisement of himself, his family and his cronies. Without the discipline of a regular army instilled into them was it any wonder that one of the rebels lost control and shot the man he saw as a beast no more worthy of mercy than a malaria carrying mosquito.