By now the whole world knows that Iraq's former dicatator has been sentenced to death. Kurds and Shias have been dancing - albeit looking over their shoulders vary of Sunni revenge. Outside Iraq reactions have varied. According to the official EU Presidency statement, death sentence is not appropriate to Saddam, as it is to nobody. Someone like myself, undecided about the death penalty's justification, can just wonder to whom it is appropriate if not to Saddam of all people.
Perhaps it would have been better if the trial had taken less time. Perhaps the whole Iraqian mess makes it difficult to appreciate the concluding of the trial. Perhaps it is again the banality of evil that Hanna Arendt so adequately described in "Eichman in Jerusalem". Like Adolf Eichman before him, Saddam is now this truly pathetic figure and therefore we cannot match his former crimes to him. Without their uniforms they don't look the part.Hopefully however, a small portion of justice has finally been served for the many imprisoned, tortured and murdered by Saddam and his henchmen.
More than any punishment meted out to Saddam, one hopes for Iraq to stabilize. Unfortunately it doesn't look likely anytime soon.
posted by Emilia.kk @ 9:51 AM
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