Posted by Dinah on December 16, 2003, at 10:35:06
In reply to Re: Atleast we have some good news.. Saddam captu, posted by Jai Narayan on December 15, 2003, at 19:59:33
Well, I for one am glad that a man who brutalized and terrified his people for so many years that I wouldn't be surprised if that country wasn't suffering some form of collective battered wife syndrome was captured alive to be given to those people to face them and accept their verdict on his actions. I can just imagine that if I had had to fear my family or I being taken away never to be heard from again for criticizing a man who had set himself up as an all-powerful being, that I wouldn't feel safe just because he was no longer in sight. The years and years of fear would probably have me believing that somehow he would still be able to regain power and get me.
To those people, the capture of Saddam may be the beginning of healing from their collective trauma. To be empowered now to put him on trial might be liberating.
I also have some inkling how it must have felt to see him pulled out of a hole in the ground, this man who had seemed so all powerful. I imagine there are a lot of mixed feelings.
As an American, I can't particularly say I feel the urge to kill, kill, kill. I might possibly admit to an urge to wish to try to help people who may not want to be helped. Heck, I'll admit to that as a person, never mind a country.
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