The Australian, 20 December 2011
I know it’s not really in tune with the festive season to be pleased when a crazy evil bastard is removed from this plane of existence, but if you want to get all relativistic about it, while us smug hypocritical Western allegedly democratic types can, in the end, vote our crazy evil bastards out, the traditional method for pensioning off a dictator or leader of a terrorist organisation is in a box, so it’s technically just an OH&S issue.
Of course, there’s always another crazy evil bastard waiting in line to run the place, whether you vote for them or not, but with any luck, you might have a short honeymoon period before power corrupts them absolutely.