Friday, December 29, 2006

On Hanging Saddam Hussein

By this time tomorrow, the odds are pretty good that Saddam Hussein will be dead.

Personally, I think that hanging the man is stupid. Not because I am opposed to the death penalty (I am), but because no matter what is said it will be seen by many to have been an act of the United States.

A dead Hussein is a martyr - one rotting in a jail cell somewhere will sooner or later be forgotten.

In the Middle East, martyrs are remembered. People will rally around their memory - and memory often becomes legend. It's damnably hard to kill legends...

1 comment:

leftdog said...

It simply contributes to the overall disaster. It does NOT make anything better and risks making things much worse.

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