Saddam Bites The Dust

Not much more to add than what has already been reported widely regarding this event. I do think that David Pryce-Jones (National Review) correctly captures the sentiment well. (Read here.) I can't help but think that, in the same way that every communist apparatchik felt a shock of terror for their own fate as they got wind of Nicolae Ceaucescu's execution, that every Islamic dictator/terrorist in the Middle East feels at least a similar tinge of fright that their fate will be similar. Probably not, but it clearly is in the realm of possibilities for the likes of Ahmedinejad, Assad, or Khadafy. As Churchill so aptly put it, "Dictators ride astride the backs of tigers they dare not dismount, for the tigers are hungry..."