I agree: it's impossible to see how Saddam's end was necessarily any less humiliating and dehumanizing than Gaddafi's. In the final analysis, no state likes the idea of peasants roughing up a head of state in the street before shooting him in the head, whatever the circumstances or however richly deserved might be such a reward.

As a human being, there is a part of me that feels sympathy for the bastard. Yet he spent a long time and went to a lot of trouble trying to prove that he was of a different order than the rest of us.

What I want to know is what became of his all-female bodyguard?