Those Whacky Europeans

[monk222]

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European politicians on Monday spoke out against the death sentence for Saddam Hussein.

-- Hassan M. Fattah for The NY Times

You know the French must be behind it, as it smacks of their kind of enlightenment. Yeah, I think a good round of community service would be just the thing for Saddam.

I mock the world, especially the Europeans and the French, but it's so funny and fascinating.

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Comments

[antilapsarian.livejournal.com]

Don't forget though that the US ranks up there with the worst of the worst when it comes to nations with the highest numbers of executions per year. We're a backward bunch here...torture, the death penalty, large numbers of a certain race in prison, etc..

Most nations long ago banned the death penalty. Life is a pretty basic human right, even for criminals. It might be a way for the US to reclaim the moral high ground if they could encourage Iraqis to do better than hanging and ex-dictator. But we don't exactly have the moral high ground anymore and show no hope of ever getting it back.

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

At this point, we're desperately looking for a way just to come out of this more or less alive, forgetting about any exalted notions of 'the moral high ground' - the pragmatic over the abstract.