Saddam goodbye

So Saddam Hussein has been executed. Truly I feel sorry that it had to come to this and I'm a little apprehensive about the aftermath. I'm sorry for the people he hurt and killed, I'm sorry for the people who believed in him as a leader and I'm sorry for him because he never actually understood that the things he did were wrong. I don't believe in the death penalty but it's hard to know what else to do with someone so innately evil who is also still idolized by many misguided people.

I often feel grateful that the world isn't relying on me to make big decisions. I often find it easy to see both sides of the coin and can seldom come down on one side or the other. In this case it is clear that the man was evil, but at the same time I ask why. Was he a cruel child? If not, what made him become a cruel man?

What really makes me angry though is that GWB's so-called "war on terrorism" was supposed to find the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks and they are still at large and probably laughing up their sleeves. I know the war has rid the world of another dictator, but at what cost? We hear stories of torture, wrongful imprisonment, young men (military) being shot at and blown up and others (insurgents) who blow themselves up just to make a point.

We live in a frightening and dangerous world but it's no more frightening and dangerous than the world we and our parents were born into.