Saddam Found In Hole, Will Likely Be In Some Hole For Forseeable Future
Well, he's not Decebalus or Vercingetorix or King Juba, and I guess we should be happy about that. The Imperium Americanum has a real bad guy in custody. Now, what should we do with him? Fortunately, strangling him in the Mamertine Prison after the parade isn't permitted these days, but it saved the Romans a show trial where their defeated enemies could excoriate the Romans for their greed.
Put on trial, Saddam will have a forum for his insipid rhetoric, filled with its syncretist ideology that blasphemes both Christianity and Shia Islam by putting Saddam in the position of savior-martyr. Someone should try to nominate him for some sort of comedy award, posthumously. Yes, I think Saddam is going to die, because everything in Iraq from the tattered and desiccated river valleys and the exploded bodies of its fish to the people so deeply touched by his life will cry out for his blood. But they will make a martyr. Because we got involved, he will become a martyr. Because he had the courage to call our bluff, he will become a martyr. Because he manipulated the West to divide against itself, he will become a martyr. The Arabs will forgive his blasphemies against God and his indignities to man, if he is killed by the order of this new Iraqi regime crimes tribunal, they only will remember his defiance.
Better to try him quietly somewhere in Iraq and bar all but the New York Times, the London Times, Arab News (that lovely Saudi journal), and Salam Pax for the Guardian (provided they start some joint-publishing agreement with people in Baghdad). Let him not think he has an audience. Then sentence him to life imprisonment, watch him carefully, and let them say from Kuala Lumpur to Casablanca, "He is a coward. He should have killed himself when he had the chance."
On A Lighter Note
Alex Doonesbury seems to have inherited her grandmother's eyes, her mother's figure, and her father's face.
ESA(20031214.1)
Well, he's not Decebalus or Vercingetorix or King Juba, and I guess we should be happy about that. The Imperium Americanum has a real bad guy in custody. Now, what should we do with him? Fortunately, strangling him in the Mamertine Prison after the parade isn't permitted these days, but it saved the Romans a show trial where their defeated enemies could excoriate the Romans for their greed.
Put on trial, Saddam will have a forum for his insipid rhetoric, filled with its syncretist ideology that blasphemes both Christianity and Shia Islam by putting Saddam in the position of savior-martyr. Someone should try to nominate him for some sort of comedy award, posthumously. Yes, I think Saddam is going to die, because everything in Iraq from the tattered and desiccated river valleys and the exploded bodies of its fish to the people so deeply touched by his life will cry out for his blood. But they will make a martyr. Because we got involved, he will become a martyr. Because he had the courage to call our bluff, he will become a martyr. Because he manipulated the West to divide against itself, he will become a martyr. The Arabs will forgive his blasphemies against God and his indignities to man, if he is killed by the order of this new Iraqi regime crimes tribunal, they only will remember his defiance.
Better to try him quietly somewhere in Iraq and bar all but the New York Times, the London Times, Arab News (that lovely Saudi journal), and Salam Pax for the Guardian (provided they start some joint-publishing agreement with people in Baghdad). Let him not think he has an audience. Then sentence him to life imprisonment, watch him carefully, and let them say from Kuala Lumpur to Casablanca, "He is a coward. He should have killed himself when he had the chance."
On A Lighter Note
Alex Doonesbury seems to have inherited her grandmother's eyes, her mother's figure, and her father's face.
ESA(20031214.1)
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