Shakespeare wrote in “Julius Caesar,” “The evil that men do lives after them … .”
So it is today after the violent death of longtime Libyan dictator and international terrorist Moammar Gadhafi.
Gadhafi’s removal from power is welcome, but it is uncertain whether the understandably enraged rebels who are now rising to power in Libya will be an improvement on his rule — or if they will adopt his despotic evil themselves.
The final end of Gadhafi’s 42-year, brutal regime came ignominiously on Thursday. Though reports are conflicting, he evidently was found hiding in a drainage pipe in the Libyan city of Sirte. Despite his reported plea of “Don’t kill me, my sons,” he was dragged out, beaten, shot and paraded on the hood of a truck. One of his sons was killed, and another was wounded and showed signs of torture, The Associated Press reported.
Gadhafi was not the first dictator whose terrorized people have exacted revenge, and he likely will not be the last.