Clinton publicly celebrated Gaddafi’s killing without embarrassment.

Evidence

Hillary Clinton, serving as secretary of state in the United States, left the world with no doubt as to what had happened. Speaking later to a television reporter, she paraphrased Caesar (who, as it happened, also attacked North Africa). She said, “We came, we saw, he died,” and laughed. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 244

Categorization

• CANDY: The Caesar paraphrase with the laugh is a compact, self-contained detail that reads as darkly quotable.
• XREF: connects to: Public mockery of Gaddafi’s death signaled the decline of Arab nationalist mystique. — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism: a renewed contract of…, 47

Broader Connections

• Public mockery of Gaddafi’s death signaled the decline of Arab nationalist mystique. #expands (0.72) — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism, 47