Khadaffy was executed yesterday. (There's no point in sugar-coating it. If the news reports are correct, he was alive when captured, and then he was dead. That's execution, not "being killed.") (Whether execution to save the cost of a trial is good or bad, in circumstances when you know what a guy did, is a debatable point. He probably could have had a few things that our Intelligence people would have liked to know...is that why he was killed so unceremoniously? Same with Bin Laden.))
Point is, it apparently cost the US taxpayer $1 billion to help depose him. (And one wonders how much it cost the French and the British?) And apparently our only hope to get any return on our money is to take it from Khadaff's frozen assets here in the US. It will certainly be interesting if whoever comes into power in Libya now - and one wonders who that will be, I'm sure President Obama doesn't know! - will demand that we turn all that money over to his governmetn, or if t hey'll let us keep out a billion for ourselves. It sure would be nice of them if they did that.
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