About Saddam...
I don't know about you but my feelings of jubilation and exhilaration are very limited. Don't get me wrong, I am very glad that he was captured, but it's more a sense of sad relief. I always had a problem with feelings of vindication, even when I thought I was really really ready to see someone get what they deserve.
There is something very sad and disappointing in seeing a person on the very bottom, even if they did it to themselves. It's the mirror image of Dorian Gray, all the futility, loneliness and despair of evil (and I am SO reluctant to use this word, George W. just spoiled it for me!) summed up in the face of its victim. Yes, he has to be judged and punished, but it seems he already did a good job of condemning himself.
Posted at 01:58 PM on December 15, 2003
I agree... I always want to give people a chance, no matter how many tyrannies they have run... It's hard looking at the individual, after so long of dismissing/condemning the neutral entity.
PS - Good stuff on the Christmas sweater! hee hee hee.... I agree with you....
Hi Dinka,
I tend towards politically conservative, yet I'm hardly a "hawk." And even I experienced what you describe as a sad sense of relief upon watching the news. But I think that with regard to SH, it stems from a realization of all of the harm that that man has caused so many of his own people.
Oh, and ditto on the Christmas sweaters! Oy! lol
I agree with Patty. I do not seek satisfaction with the "revenge" or "vengeance" mentality. I was hurt when I heard people say about the 911 terrorists "I hope they are in Hell". That part belongs to God. But where Saddam is concerned, I felt more relief that his being caught may mean he cannot be responsible for any more harm to people.