Libya's Old Queen Is Dead

What I'd like to know: who gets dibs on his wardrobe? (You have to admit the newly-defunct transvestite had some awfully fetching frocks.)



Update: What message does Gaddafi's demise send America's enemies? Mark Steyn, citing Bernard Lewis, says it sends a profoundly disturburing one:

Bernard Lewis said a few years ago that, in the Middle East, America risks teaching the lesson that she is harmless as an enemy and treacherous as a friend. So far the score in the Arab Spring is pretty consistent: On the CIA rule, Gaddafi, Ben Ali and Mubarak were SOBs but perceived, to one degree or another, as the west’s SOBs. Baby Assad wasn’t our SOB, and he’s still in business, and getting aid and comfort from a supposed US client regime in Iraq. And the two most assiduous ideological exporters, Iran and Saudi Arabia, have vastly increased their influence. So has the Muslim Brotherhood.

Sounds to me like the bad guys are winning because the good guys are clueless wimps.