<<Gaddaffi ordered his air force to gun down unarmed civilians protesting in Benghazi.>>
BFD, we see the exact same conduct from regimes the US supports, in Yemen and Bahrein. They ALL target unarmed civilians if the unarmed civilians oppose the regime. The Nazi war criminals hanged at Nuremburg did a lot worse, and still got a fair trial and a humane execution. Nor were their children murdered after their demise.
<<Americans did not shoot Gaddaffi, nor does it seem that they could have prevented it.>>
The point is, it was done by the side they supported, which kind of throws back Hillary's and Obama's prattle about freedom, liberty and human rights right back in their lying faces.
<<It was a war, and as in all wars, people got killed brutally. >>
Bullshit. Not war when a mob captures one man and there's no shooting. Even those fucking Japs who cut off my neighbour's tongue got a fair trial and a humane punishment. Even the God-damn Nazis.
<<Does Gaddaffi merit special recognition because of his celebrity status over unknown Libyans?>>
What a ridiculous question. Like asking if Keitel or Ribbentrop merited special recognition? The most loathesome criminal deserves basic human rights which only loathesome criminals in their turn will deny him. This mob, characterized in Hillary's and Obama's speeches as freedom fighters, revealed their true colours in the lynching, which at the same time ripped the cover off Hillary's and Obama's lies.
<<Is Michael Jackson's death a greater tragedy than the death of Leroy Jones, who never attained celebrity, but still did a mean moonwalk? If all men are equal, then no, Gaddaffi is no more special than all those Libyans killed at his direction.>>
I think you've got a real commitment to Obama over the GOP, which is very, very understandable, and you're willing to overlook a helluva lot of character defects for what you consider to be the "greater good." Michael Jackson? Leroy Jones? Moonwalk? C'mon, XO, you're losing it. You're descending into sophistry and letting the worst among us (Ghaddafi) set the standards. And that ain't right.
It seems to me that preventing a massacre of Libyans by Gaddaffi was a worthy reason to provide the limited aid that NATO provided. A trial of Gaddaffi in the Hague would have been a better end to this, but wars are unpredictable.