{"id":27126,"date":"2011-10-21T13:25:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T17:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27126"},"modified":"2011-10-21T13:26:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T17:26:10","slug":"adios-moamar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27126","title":{"rendered":"Adios, Moammar"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I don’t have to worryy about how we’re spelling his name this week any longer. Yeah, I found out from CNN since that’s what everyone tunes their TVs to at the new Walter Reed in Bethesda. My reaction was what you’d expect…reserved smile. Of course, the world will have to deal with his successor, whatever stripe he might be wearing. Qaddafi’s violent death was inevitable. I’m not so naive to think this will change much of anything in the region, but I’m glad he’s gone.<\/p>\n

Claymore sent us a link to Townhall<\/a> in which they post the video of Gaddafi’s final moments…I haven’t watched the whole thing because I’ve watched too many people die in various circumstances to find it very instructive or entertaining. I don’t take much joy from any loss of life, whether it’s deserved or not, and death by mob has got to be terrifying for any human.<\/p>\n

ANyway, the comments in Townhall are indeed instructive. Watching each side try to twist the “meaning” to their own politics is fairly disgusting, an exercise in rhetorical pretzel-making. The Left uses it to bash Bush some more, and the right to bash obama. <\/p>\n

The removal of Gaddafi from amongst the living has nothing to do with American politics, it just is what it is, and another reason to be more wary of the world we’ve made. Throwing fingers doesn’t make us safer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I don’t have to worryy about how we’re spelling his name this week any longer. … Adios, Moammar<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}