Why do dictators do it?

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“It’s lying in a morgue in Misrata in a city in the middle of a country on a bloodied mattress and spectators can’t take their eyes off it,” said one report.

Poor Khadafy — he died before the world could even agree on how to spell his name.

Why didn’t he just make himself a fairy tale king the way the British do it, so you can be a tourist attraction while you’re still alive?

But no, Khadafy wants the real thing, and ends up scampering into a graffiti-covered drainage culvert — and is executed with his own golden pistol. Reportedly by a teenager who didn’t realize that summary execution of prisoners is a WAR crime.

Boy, is his conscience going to hurt.

Why do dictators do it? Why do they become dictators, and blow off elections, and boss people around? I’m sure it’s fun to cast statues of yourself and make four-hour speeches, but the firing process is a b—-.

I mean look at the pictures — your enemies are really gonna… mess you up.

Khadafy was once a dashing young idealist — I asked to a professor of military history if there are any red flags that typically mark the moment when a ruler crosses the line from idealist to monster:

“I think when he gets the first good-looking east German security women to be his bodyguard.”

See but really — are the bodyguards gorgeous enough to be worth ending your life in a culvert?

Future tyrants — look and learn! An election or two wouldn’t kill you. Losing isn’t that bad. America is full of losing politicians on lucrative lecture circuits…

Why do you guys delude yourselves like this?

Yeah I know. The only thing more delusional than a tyrant who thinks he’ll last forever… is to think that they won’t keep trying. Everybody thinks they’re Castro.

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