A person brought forward in time from the murderous slaughter of 70 years ago would probably look around and say, yes, this is what I expected.
Weeks later, murderous slaughter by Muammar Gaddafi's forces still threatens the people of Misrata, and, as things stand, neither Benghazi nor Tripoli appears likely to fall imminently to either side.
Is the crime that Manning committed worse than the murderous slaughter of innocent civilians by American soldiers?
I still remember the haunting music of Tales of the Unexpected, watching Lamb to the Slaughter, the murderous tale of an enraged detective's wife who kills her husband with the Sunday joint.
Isis is a murderous death cult that mostly slaughters Muslims in Iraq and Syria, and poses a genuine threat to civilians in France, Britain and elsewhere.
Often on drugs, wearing fetishes they believed made them impervious to bullets, and garbed in costumes ranging from novelty-store fright masks to wigs and women's bathrobes, these murderous adolescents raped, pillaged, and slaughtered at will.
This is the kind of language we are used to hearing from spokespeople for the United Nations when they are trying to broker a truce between murderous factions who have been slaughtering each other for decades – and it is usually taken as meaning that the two sides have spent the meeting swearing at each other.
While world leaders debate whether Syria has violated international law or a cease-fire agreement, and the United Nations Security Council issues a condemnation, murderous thugs in Syria continue to slaughter innocent men, women and children.
The murderous attacks on Israel and the slaughter of innocent human beings was seen by Europeans as legitimate struggle," she wrote in the post.
Strange, then, that the United States and Europe never thought this could happen — not to Qaddafi, or Mubarak, or Ben Ali, or any of the other murderous plunderers, some now gone, others slaughtering their own people, here in Libya, or in Syria, or Yemen.
It's a freedom that can result in "Street Fighting Man" or "Scorpio Rising," or in a group of murderous hippies invading two homes and slaughtering the inhabitants on the orders of a petty thief and failed rock star.
