Saddam's Demise

So they finally executed Saddam ....
Just another barbaric act in a whole catalogue of human tragedy.
I doubt it is likely to resolve anything, in fact it will probably make things worse.

Personally I think it would have been better to impose a life sentence in exile, like Hess in Spandau prison. Eventually all the vim and vigour would have been drained from his existence, and he would have appeared as just anther old, bitter and broken man.

In the latter stages of the first decade of a new millennium I was hoping for better from the human race.

Civilised? Doesn't really seem like it to me.