The Issue: The capture and killing of Moammar Khadafy by Libyan fighters last Thursday.
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The brutal death of Moammar Khadafy is one of the few instances of true justice (“The End of Khadafy,” Editorial, Oct. 21).
He didn’t die in a cell or strapped to a gurney.
Khadafy was beaten and tormented before being shot, experiencing the same terror and despair he meted out over 42 years.
Brad Morris
Astoria
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It’s been a great year in the fight against terrorism with the notable deaths of Osama bin Laden and Khadafy.
Karma knows where you live, and it will get you in the end.
Virginia Ciccotto
Massapequa Park
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President Obama has led with caution, not jeopardizing any more American lives than need be.
He has worked in unison with other nations and, through quiet diplomacy and pressure, has brought about revolutionary changes in nations thirsting for freedom.
Hosni Mubarak’s gone, and Syria and Yemen are on the brink of change. Bin Laden, Khadafy and Anwar al-Awlaki are all dead, countless other terrorists have been killed and al Qaeda is in shambles.
If this is leading from behind, then drone on!
David DiBello
Brooklyn
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History has witnessed a black chapter in the willful assassination of Khadafy.
What rights have the Libyans gained with this cold-blooded murder?
I feel immensely sad that the Libyan rebels, global leadership and United Nations failed to evolve a peaceful consensus, as was done in Egypt and Yemen.
NATO stands responsible for instigating the violence in Libya through airstrikes and, now, Khadafy’s death.
He could have been taken into custody and tried in the International Court of Justice.
The United Nations needs to question how many more countries have to sacrifice in the name of democracy and change.
Syed Khaja
New Delhi, India
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In one of his last despicable acts of contempt for civilization, Khadafy referred to the rebels who sought to topple him from his 42-year, iron-fisted rule as “rats.”
It’s ironic, then, that it is Khadafy who is dragged out of a storm drain and mortally wounded.
For him to have died like a rat, stripped of all dignity and the trappings of power in which he’d reveled for so long, is poetic justice.
Oren Spiegler
Upper Saint Clair, Pa.
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I am glad that one of the last dictatorships has fallen, but I am appalled that some of the media have been referring to Khadafy as the last dictator of the world.
In Cuba there has been a bloody and destructive dictator since 1959.
And, despite what the regime or media claim, there is no change, reform or anything to indicate that Cubans will enjoy all their rights soon.
Pedro Martori
Montreal
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For years we have had to listen to President George W. Bush being denounced because he captured and interrogated Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks.
Today, we are still being denied justice, because Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have actively obstructed justice for political reasons.
Where are all the disloyal, self-hating Americans who were so worried about KSM’s rights now that bin Laden and Khadafy have been murdered by Obama?
These two monsters got what they deserved.
Let’s hope that KSM gets the same through military tribunals.
Robert Reeg
Stony Point
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Obama should reap glory for helping to topple Khadafy.
How he led from behind is now being vindicated.
But if Bush hadn’t scared Khadafy out of his nuclear weapons program, things would have turned out differently for all humanity.
Does Obama have the honesty to give credit where credit is due?
David Bergstein
Manhattan