I wrote the following in response to a diarist at RedState:
That “[t]yrants like Saddam will exist as long as the governments of the world carry on business as usual with the despots while trying to block the screams of their victims from conscious thought” is, I think, blaming the civilized for the crimes of the uncivilized. Tyrants like Saddam will exist as long as the tyrannized do not rebel. Yes, the civilized world has obligation to assist in the “sic semper tyrannus”, but the tyrant is his own evil. Saddam bears responsibility for all that he has done, and any sort of introspection regarding this and/or his end is banal and counterproductive.
Saddam Hussein’s life is devalued to the extent he devalued the lives of others. The world loses nothing tonight. Likewise, for me personally to cheer his death would be to applaud that which rendered his life meaningless. His atrocities.
No, I’ll wait for him to die. I’ll sigh, relieved, when it is done. And I hope they dump his corpse in the Euphrates.
