I hesitated to post this, but it’s the clearest video I’ve seen of the apparent capture of Qaddafi and, while disturbing to watch, it’s not as graphic as this kind of thing could be.
I remember having a similar reaction to images of Saddam Hussein after his capture: how banal the whole situation seems, how reductionist, how one man is ultimately too small and fragile to be the receptacle for all the retributive anger and violence he himself has unleashed.
Ultimately it challenges our sense of what it means to do justice. A summary execution isn’t very satisfying, but neither is execution after due process in a case like this. Like the hole he left in the ground in Lockerbie, there is just a chasm of injustice too deep to be filled.
Warning: These images are disturbing.
