The litany of brutality, lawlessness and lack of accountability serves as a reminder of what a horrible decision President Obama made at the outset of his administration to close the books on this chapter in our history, even as he repudiated the use of torture.
So, given all this, as a political party of purpose, one capable of writing our nation's story, why was Labor repudiated by the people?
Earlier, Hockey repudiated Forrest's idea, saying "we're not very supportive of cartels at all".
In 2006 Cameron repudiated her position and described Mandela as a hero.
Yet the Lib Dems have already repudiated it as a betrayal of the national interest and could not put him back into Number 10 if there were any risk he would lead a campaign to exit the EU.
They were on the opposite side of too many fences.Smith upheld the traditional family, never ventured any serious criticism of the British state, supported Pitt against Fox and repudiated the very notion of deliberate legal reform.
But his party, and Mr Trimble himself, have found it difficult to agree to meet a party which, they claim, has not repudiated terrorism (although in the talks they have sat for more than a year at the table with parties representing loyalist terrorists).
Mr Brown has avowedly repudiated the old methods, but Labour's press apparatchiks still tend to be mini-Campbells wearing sharp suits and scowls.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, California's Republican governor, adopted a more co-operative approach after voters repudiated his efforts in 2005 to force through legislation bitterly opposed by local Democrats.
The short answer in the case of Libya is that Barack Obama has not invented a new doctrine so much as repudiated an old one.
Christine Varney, President Obama's chief trustbuster, gave a speech on May 11th in which she repudiated the "overly lenient" course favoured by the previous administration.Ms Varney's remarks suggest that the transatlantic flow of ideas on antitrust policy may now be moving from east to west.
